window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_10778150": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10778150",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10778150",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10778135,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-400x293.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 293
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-960x702.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 702
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1404
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-1440x1053.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1053
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-800x585.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 585
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-1920x1404.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1404
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-1180x863.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 863
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAStoreFront-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1449011605,
"modified": 1449011648,
"caption": "A storefront in the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District.",
"description": "A storefront in the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District.",
"title": "LAStoreFront",
"credit": "John Francis Peters/NPR",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10777887": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10777887",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10777887",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10777885,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-400x258.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 258
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-960x619.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 619
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1238
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-1440x929.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 929
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-800x516.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 516
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-1920x1238.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1238
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-1180x761.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 761
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/FightFor15-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1448995721,
"modified": 1449009138,
"caption": "Fast-food workers with the Fight for $15 movement rallied in Sacramento for higher wages in August 2015.",
"description": "Fast food workers with the Fight for $15 movement rallied in Sacramento for higher wages in August, 2015.",
"title": "FightFor15",
"credit": "Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10776835": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10776835",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10776835",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10776833,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-1038x576.jpe",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-400x300.jpe",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-960x720.jpe",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-672x372.jpe",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-e1448918064925.jpe",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-1440x1080.jpe",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-96x96.jpe",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-800x600.jpe",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 600
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-64x64.jpe",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-32x32.jpe",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-280x150.jpe",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-1920x1440.jpe",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1440
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-1180x885.jpe",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 885
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-75x75.jpe",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/johnfpeters_npr_la_finals11.jpg-996e7a4d80ba6eb78ce24a3f6377745e3ec65977-128x128.jpe",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1448917989,
"modified": 1448918058,
"caption": "Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis, and it was poised to become a manufacturing giant because of its unique geography. As industry grew, so did an infrastructure of freeways that connects the ports to the eastern reaches of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, where factories had the space to expand.",
"description": "\u003c!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?--> Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis, and it was poised to become a manufacturing giant because of its unique geography. As industry grew, so did an infrastructure of freeways that connects the ports to the eastern reaches of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, where factories had the space to expan",
"title": "Los Angeles-Manufacturing-NPR",
"credit": "John Francis Peters for NPR",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10769450": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10769450",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10769450",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10769449,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-400x271.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 271
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-960x650.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 650
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1300
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-1440x975.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 975
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-800x542.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 542
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-1920x1300.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1300
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-1180x799.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 799
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/3400_transform-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1448319171,
"modified": 1448319205,
"caption": "Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom has plenty to work on in 2016. ",
"description": null,
"title": null,
"credit": "Frazer Harrison/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10766032": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10766032",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10766032",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10766031,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-1023x576.jpg",
"width": 1023,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-400x300.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-960x720.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18.jpg",
"width": 1023,
"height": 767
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-800x600.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 600
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/square-b24eb6ea1d463cf7d64dbbc136791d24c16b9c18-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1448054429,
"modified": 1448054497,
"caption": "The mobile payment device by Square allows small merchants to swipe customers' payment cards with a phone.",
"description": null,
"title": "Square",
"credit": "Sqaure Inc.",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10762231": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10762231",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10762231",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10761651,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-400x287.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 287
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-960x689.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 689
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7.jpg",
"width": 2800,
"height": 2009
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-1440x1033.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1033
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-800x574.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-1920x1378.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1378
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-1180x847.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 847
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/20151111_homeless_jt-7-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1447778919,
"modified": 1447778946,
"caption": "Brian and Andrea Rodriguez have been living on San Jose's streets and creeks for the better part of two years now, keeping each other's spirits up as they fight to get back into paying jobs and permanent housing.",
"description": "Brian and Andrea Rodriguez have been living on San Jose's streets and creeks for the better part of two years now, keeping each other's spirits up as they fight to get back into paying jobs and permanent housing.",
"title": "20151111_homeless_jt-7",
"credit": "James Tensuan/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10752436": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10752436",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10752436",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10752423,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-400x230.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 230
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-960x552.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1104
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-1440x828.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 828
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-800x460.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 460
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-1920x1104.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-1180x679.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 679
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoTurbines-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1447110947,
"modified": 1447115807,
"caption": "Energía Sierra Juárez is the first cross-border wind farm project between the U.S. and Mexico. Plans to extend capacity by 700 percent have been met with criticism of the potential environmental impact.",
"description": "Energía Sierra Juárez is the first cross-border wind farm project between the U.S. and Mexico. Plans to extend capacity by 700 percent have been met with criticism of the potential environmental impact.",
"title": "MexicoTurbines",
"credit": "Nicholas McVicker/KPBS",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10748567": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10748567",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10748567",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10747582,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-400x224.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 224
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-960x538.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 538
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1075
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-1440x806.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 806
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-800x448.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 448
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-1920x1075.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1075
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-1180x661.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 661
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScott-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1446837236,
"modified": 1446837261,
"caption": "Will Scott Jr. gets ready to head home after a day on his farm. ",
"description": "Will Scott Jr. gets ready to head home after a day on his farm. ",
"title": "WillScott",
"credit": "Alice Daniel/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10747588": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10747588",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10747588",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10746188,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-400x235.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 235
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-960x564.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 564
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1128
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-1440x846.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 846
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-800x470.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-1920x1128.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1128
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-1180x693.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 693
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Airbnb-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1446766585,
"modified": 1446766618,
"caption": "A sign outside an Airbnb event in Los Angeles.",
"description": "A sign outside an Airbnb event in Los Angeles.",
"title": "Airbnb",
"credit": "Chris Weeks/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10728941": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10728941",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10728941",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10728938,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-400x300.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-960x720.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-e1446740008109.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-1440x1080.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-800x600.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 600
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-1920x1440.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1440
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-1180x885.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 885
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10.10.2015-151-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1445547581,
"modified": 1446740030,
"caption": "Andrew Hoffman is one of a growing number of restaurant owners who are ditching tips.",
"description": null,
"title": "Andrew Hoffman-Comal",
"credit": "Sam Harnett/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10500474": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10500474",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10500474",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10500291,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-400x300.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-960x720.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-e1429841422912.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-1440x1080.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-800x600.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 600
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-1180x885.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 885
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_2173-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429841386,
"modified": 1429841535,
"caption": "Construction cranes and gleaming new buildings reflect the changing face of San Francisco.",
"description": "Construction cranes and gleaming new buildings reflect the changing face of San Francisco.",
"title": "Changing face of SF",
"credit": "Patricia Yollin/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10728803": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10728803",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10728803",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10728800,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-400x263.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 263
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-960x630.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 630
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1260
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-1440x945.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 945
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-800x525.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 525
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-1920x1260.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1260
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-1180x774.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 774
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/NFairOaks-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1445541056,
"modified": 1445541120,
"caption": "Community members and consultant Millette Litzinger (L) discuss plans for a redesigned Middlefield Road at a design workshop in North Fair Oaks on Sept. 30, 2015.",
"description": "Community members and consultant Millette Litzinger (L) discuss plans for a redesigned Middlefield Road at a design workshop in North Fair Oaks on Sept. 30, 2015.",
"title": "NFairOaks",
"credit": "Jeff Barrera/Peninsula Press",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_news_10778135": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10778135",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10778135",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers\">Kelly McEvers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/4510160/david-greene\">David Greene\u003c/a>\u003cbr>NPR\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10777885": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10777885",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10777885",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/about/staff/pauline-bartolone/\">Pauline Bartolone\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CALmatters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10776833": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10776833",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10776833",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/4510160/david-greene\">David Greene\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/130330851/sonari-glinton\">Sonari Glinton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/177485735/shereen-marisol-meraji\">Shereen Marisol Meraji\u003c/a>\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10766031": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10766031",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10766031",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2101272/laura-sydell\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Sydell\u003c/a>\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10752423": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10752423",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10752423",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/staff/jean-guerrero/\">Jean Guerrero\u003c/a>\u003cbr>KPBS\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10728800": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10728800",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10728800",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/author/jeffbarrera/\">Jeff Barrera\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"aliceldaniel": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "208",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "208",
"found": true
},
"name": "Alice Daniel",
"firstName": "Alice",
"lastName": "Daniel",
"slug": "aliceldaniel",
"email": "adaniel@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Alice Daniel loves the listening aspect of reporting because she gets to briefly walk in other people’s shoes. She has rappelled down into caves and gone up in helicopters for KQED’s The California Report but her favorite place to pursue a story is the High Sierra or any family-run bakery, of course. Alice has a masters in journalism from Columbia University and teaches at Fresno State. She is a California Healthline Regional Correspondent and a frequent contributor to Success magazine. In her free time, she skis and hikes, throws pottery, practices piano and looks out the window.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e611aa06593b114a67f9f123a8e875ad?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Alice Daniel | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e611aa06593b114a67f9f123a8e875ad?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e611aa06593b114a67f9f123a8e875ad?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/aliceldaniel"
},
"gmarzorati": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "227",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "227",
"found": true
},
"name": "Guy Marzorati",
"firstName": "Guy",
"lastName": "Marzorati",
"slug": "gmarzorati",
"email": "gmarzorati@KQED.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Correspondent",
"bio": "Guy Marzorati is a correspondent on KQED's California Politics and Government Desk, based in San Jose. A graduate of Santa Clara University, Guy joined KQED in 2013. He reports on state and local politics and produces KQED's digital voter guide.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e7038b8dbfd55b104369b76b1cd0b9de?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "guymarzorati",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Guy Marzorati | KQED",
"description": "Correspondent",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e7038b8dbfd55b104369b76b1cd0b9de?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e7038b8dbfd55b104369b76b1cd0b9de?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/gmarzorati"
},
"patyollin": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "247",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "247",
"found": true
},
"name": "Patricia Yollin",
"firstName": "Patricia",
"lastName": "Yollin",
"slug": "patyollin",
"email": "pyollin@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Pat Yollin has written about lots of stuff, including organ transplants, wayward penguins at the San Francisco Zoo, the comeback of the cream puff, New York on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a Slow Food gathering in Italy, and the microcredit movement in Northern California. Among her favorite stories: an interview with George Lucas at Skywalker Ranch that broke the story about his plan to build a cultural museum, and a pirate Trader Joe's operation in Vancouver that prompted the grocery chain to sue -- and lose. She joined KQED in 2013 and was previously a reporter and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the Hayward Daily Review.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0a18ac41a263665c04b25b2c7d6b817c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "lowdown",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Patricia Yollin | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0a18ac41a263665c04b25b2c7d6b817c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0a18ac41a263665c04b25b2c7d6b817c?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/patyollin"
},
"rachael-myrow": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "251",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "251",
"found": true
},
"name": "Rachael Myrow",
"firstName": "Rachael",
"lastName": "Myrow",
"slug": "rachael-myrow",
"email": "rmyrow@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Senior Editor of KQED's Silicon Valley News Desk",
"bio": "• I write and edit stories about how Silicon Valley power and policies shape everyday life in California. I’m also passionate about making Bay Area history and culture more accessible to a broad public. • I’ve been a journalist for most of my life, starting in high school with The Franklin Press in Los Angeles, where I grew up. While earning my first degree in English at UC Berkeley, I got my start in public radio at KALX-FM. After completing a second degree in journalism at Cal, I landed my first professional job at Marketplace, then moved on to KPCC (now LAist), and then KQED, where I hosted The California Report for more than seven years. • My reporting has appeared on NPR, The World, WBUR’s \u003ci>Here & Now\u003c/i>, and the BBC. I also guest host for KQED’s \u003ci>Forum\u003c/i>, as well as the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. • I speak periodically on media, democracy and technology issues, and do voiceover work for documentaries and educational video projects. • Outside of the studio, you'll find me hiking Bay Area trails and whipping up Insta-ready meals in my kitchen. • I do not accept gifts, money, or favors from anyone connected to my reporting, I don't pay people for information, and I do not support or donate to political causes. • I strive to treat the people I report on with fairness, honesty, and respect. I also recognize there are often multiple sides to a story and work to verify information through multiple sources and documentation. If I get something wrong, I correct it.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ed8a3c5f26025e4a805ba634cda8cd764906b97438a6d9ce216b044e340da4e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "rachaelmyrow",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelmyrow/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"edit_others_posts",
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Rachael Myrow | KQED",
"description": "Senior Editor of KQED's Silicon Valley News Desk",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ed8a3c5f26025e4a805ba634cda8cd764906b97438a6d9ce216b044e340da4e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ed8a3c5f26025e4a805ba634cda8cd764906b97438a6d9ce216b044e340da4e?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/rachael-myrow"
},
"samharnett": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "253",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "253",
"found": true
},
"name": "Sam Harnett",
"firstName": "Sam",
"lastName": "Harnett",
"slug": "samharnett",
"email": "samharnett@gmail.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Sam Harnett covered tech and work at KQED. He is the co-creator of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org\">The World According to Sound\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> a 90-second podcast that features different sounds and the stories behind them.\r\n\r\nBefore coming to KQED, Sam worked as an independent reporter who contributed regularly to \u003cem>The California Report, Marketplace,\u003c/em> \u003cem>The World \u003c/em>and NPR.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2538b972ac02f2b9546c7a6c59a0f3d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "Samwharnett",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"edit_others_posts",
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Sam Harnett | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2538b972ac02f2b9546c7a6c59a0f3d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2538b972ac02f2b9546c7a6c59a0f3d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/samharnett"
},
"mlagos": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "3239",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "3239",
"found": true
},
"name": "Marisa Lagos",
"firstName": "Marisa",
"lastName": "Lagos",
"slug": "mlagos",
"email": "mlagos@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Marisa Lagos is a correspondent for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-hosts the award-winning show and podcast, Political Breakdown. At KQED, Lagos also conducts reporting, analysis and investigations into state, local and national politics for radio, TV, online and onstage. In 2022, she and co-host, Scott Shafer, moderated the only gubernatorial debate in California. In 2020, the \u003ci>Washington Post\u003c/i> named her one of the top political journalists in California; she was nominated for a Peabody and won several other awards for her work investigating the 2017 California wildfires. She has worked at the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i>, \u003ci>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Los Angeles Times\u003c/i>. A UC Santa Barbara graduate, she lives in San Francisco with her two sons and husband.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a261a0d3696fc066871ef96b85b5e7d2?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "@mlagos",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Marisa Lagos | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a261a0d3696fc066871ef96b85b5e7d2?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a261a0d3696fc066871ef96b85b5e7d2?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/mlagos"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_economy": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1758",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1758",
"score": 12.942432
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Economy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Full coverage of the economy",
"title": "Economy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2648,
"slug": "economy",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Economy",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 144
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=economy",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 144
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_10778135": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10778135",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10778135",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1449043502000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1449043502,
"format": "image",
"disqusTitle": "From Pocket Lining to Jeans, a Niche Means Survival in L.A. Fashion",
"title": "From Pocket Lining to Jeans, a Niche Means Survival in L.A. Fashion",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles is a region better known for Hollywood, but it actually has more manufacturing jobs than any other metro area in the U.S. Of the more than half-million manufacturing jobs in the region, about 50,000 of them are in the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fashion is a big part of L.A.'s identity, and you feel it in the Fashion District downtown. It has changed a lot since the late 1980s, when plain beige towers called California Mart bustled with all things related to the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weitman grew up around the garment industry and remembers Cal Mart's heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was first-generation migrant workers working their butts off all day long on a sewing machine or cutting tables, and these buildings were just humming. And there were racks rolling in and out all day long. These freight elevators, you'd have to wait to just load your garments in them to get them into a truck to get them to ship out to a store,\" Weitman says. \"But everyone wanted to be around here because this was the hub. This was the only showroom center in L.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QNVLCx8OoEhArjc0PqcTlvJDK1xEZ2bm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, he says, workers could spend all their time here. \"It was amazing energy, and also, inside of this building, you could almost like live in there and never leave except for sleep,\" he says. \"They had a barbershop, dry cleaner, 15 different restaurants you could eat in, a dentist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitman owns a company that makes the things that go on the inside of a garment — waistbands, pocket lining, shirt collar lining, dress linings. When you reach into your jeans for your keys and rub your hand against the lining of the pocket — there's a chance Weitman's company made that material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times have changed in the fashion industry here in L.A. Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. While the garment industry has helped keep L.A. as a manufacturing city for longer than other American cities, economists agree this industry is not the way of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bright spot here has been high-end denim. A lot of $30 jeans are made in Mexico or China, but designer jeans almost always come from L.A. That's because hot trends come and go — and designers can't really send stuff abroad and wait for it to come back. They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. The previous owners were selling, he says, because clients wanted to move production to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in that time, I didn't know,\" he says. \"So maybe if I know what happened, maybe I don't take it, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he took a risk and is still in the game today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10778135 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10778135",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-l-a-fashion/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 880,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 23
},
"modified": 1449014779,
"excerpt": "L.A.'s fashion industry has been bleeding jobs, but one bright spot has been high-end denim. Whereas $30 jeans are often made in China or Mexico, designer jeans are almost always made here.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "L.A.'s fashion industry has been bleeding jobs, but one bright spot has been high-end denim. Whereas $30 jeans are often made in China or Mexico, designer jeans are almost always made here.",
"title": "From Pocket Lining to Jeans, a Niche Means Survival in L.A. Fashion | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "From Pocket Lining to Jeans, a Niche Means Survival in L.A. Fashion",
"datePublished": "2015-12-02T00:05:02-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-12-01T16:06:19-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-l-a-fashion",
"status": "publish",
"nprApiLink": "http://api.npr.org/query?id=456027751&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers\">Kelly McEvers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/4510160/david-greene\">David Greene\u003c/a>\u003cbr>NPR\u003c/strong>",
"nprStoryDate": "Tue, 01 Dec 2015 04:44:00 -0500",
"nprLastModifiedDate": "Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:20:05 -0500",
"nprHtmlLink": "http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion?ft=nprml&f=456027751",
"nprAudio": "http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/12/20151201_me_from_pocket_lining_to_jeans_a_niche_means_survival_in_la_fashion.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&aggIds=351733364&d=621&p=3&story=456027751&t=progseg&e=457973985&seg=1&ft=nprml&f=456027751",
"nprImageAgency": "John Francis Peters for NPR",
"nprAudioM3u": "http://api.npr.org/m3u/1457974719-573941.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&aggIds=351733364&d=621&p=3&story=456027751&t=progseg&e=457973985&seg=1&ft=nprml&f=456027751",
"nprStoryId": "456027751",
"nprRetrievedStory": "1",
"nprPubDate": "Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:34:00 -0500",
"path": "/news/10778135/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-l-a-fashion",
"audioUrl": "http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/12/20151201_me_from_pocket_lining_to_jeans_a_niche_means_survival_in_la_fashion.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&aggIds=351733364&d=621&p=3&story=456027751&t=progseg&e=457973985&seg=1&ft=nprml&f=456027751",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Los Angeles is a region better known for Hollywood, but it actually has more manufacturing jobs than any other metro area in the U.S. Of the more than half-million manufacturing jobs in the region, about 50,000 of them are in the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fashion is a big part of L.A.'s identity, and you feel it in the Fashion District downtown. It has changed a lot since the late 1980s, when plain beige towers called California Mart bustled with all things related to the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weitman grew up around the garment industry and remembers Cal Mart's heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was first-generation migrant workers working their butts off all day long on a sewing machine or cutting tables, and these buildings were just humming. And there were racks rolling in and out all day long. These freight elevators, you'd have to wait to just load your garments in them to get them into a truck to get them to ship out to a store,\" Weitman says. \"But everyone wanted to be around here because this was the hub. This was the only showroom center in L.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, he says, workers could spend all their time here. \"It was amazing energy, and also, inside of this building, you could almost like live in there and never leave except for sleep,\" he says. \"They had a barbershop, dry cleaner, 15 different restaurants you could eat in, a dentist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitman owns a company that makes the things that go on the inside of a garment — waistbands, pocket lining, shirt collar lining, dress linings. When you reach into your jeans for your keys and rub your hand against the lining of the pocket — there's a chance Weitman's company made that material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times have changed in the fashion industry here in L.A. Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. While the garment industry has helped keep L.A. as a manufacturing city for longer than other American cities, economists agree this industry is not the way of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bright spot here has been high-end denim. A lot of $30 jeans are made in Mexico or China, but designer jeans almost always come from L.A. That's because hot trends come and go — and designers can't really send stuff abroad and wait for it to come back. They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. The previous owners were selling, he says, because clients wanted to move production to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in that time, I didn't know,\" he says. \"So maybe if I know what happened, maybe I don't take it, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he took a risk and is still in the game today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10778135/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-l-a-fashion",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10778135"
],
"programs": [
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_4",
"news_3167",
"news_17286"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_253"
],
"featImg": "news_10778150",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10777885": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10777885",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10777885",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1448998085000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1448998085,
"format": "image",
"disqusTitle": "California Cities Build Momentum on Minimum Wage Boosts",
"title": "California Cities Build Momentum on Minimum Wage Boosts",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Lydia Flores saves gas money by taking a two-hour train ride to and from her cashier job at a Los Angeles supermarket. She tells her teenage sons about another way the family can save on the cost of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eat it slow,” she tells them. “They gotta savor their eggs now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stretch her dollars, Flores gets some food from churches. Her sons wear their uncle’s hand-me-downs. A couple of times a year, she’ll ask a local nonprofit to help pay a utility bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You pay one bill and leave the other. And then, you’ll get the disconnection notice, and then you pay that bill, and then leave another bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235587324\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earning $12.88 an hour, Flores supports her two sons on roughly $2,000 a month or less after taxes. That includes a Social Security check her younger son receives because of a developmental disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like hers, of people who work full time and still struggle to meet basic needs, that have fueled groups such as \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for $15\u003c/a> and the movement to raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities have heard their call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California cities lead the charge to raise minimum wage\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last three years, 15 of the 30 cities and counties nationwide that have voted to increase the minimum wage have been in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/topic/minimum-wage-living-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a state that has made it very clear to cities and counties that they have the authority to pass a higher minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that publishes research about low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huizar said some states, like Georgia and Texas, prohibit localities from passing minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts say a mix of politics and economics explain why half of the recent local increases have happened through California regional governments. Andrew Busch of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College said it’s the left-leaning politics and high cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers or voters are more receptive to an increased minimum wage because they see that it just costs a lot more to live in those places,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Fight for $15 movement say getting traction on the city level hasn’t necessarily been the focus of their campaign. It is one of many groups that organized to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. But leaders say their demonstrations have influenced New York State policymakers and employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all types of ways to get there, and I don’t think that the workers really care how they get there. They care that they have $15 so they can get out of poverty,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7m2qiWIcCYdLSSCPAxEcFGQRyArAf0rq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, actions by the California cities could prove influential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California raised its minimum wage from $8 to $9 an hour in July 2014. The state will raise it again to $10 an hour in January 2016. Large cities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas have passed ordinances to raise their minimum wages to up to $15 an hour by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch said if enough cities adopt an increase, there may be a “psychological momentum” to adopt similar increases statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might begin to make the argument that there are too many cities at risk of losing jobs to competitor cities, and the playing field needs to be leveled out,” Busch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities' minimum wage movements may influence state actions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill this year to raise the minimum wage statewide to $13 with future adjustments for inflation, said higher wages in cities create an opportunity for state policy to make the marketplace fairer for competing businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raising our state minimum wage to be a little closer to some of these higher city and county minimum wages would do that,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Leno said, if cities show that local wage increases don’t “kill jobs,” that would help proponents of the statewide measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777891\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1440x953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the wave of new local wage ordinances has California employers concerned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbrt.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Business Roundtable\u003c/a> hasn’t yet taken a stance on the statewide wage proposals, and says its members don’t employ many low-wage workers. But Robert Lapsley, president of the roundtable, said minimum wage decisions should happen at the state Capitol, with regional economic differences taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you make good public policy if you’re doing it solely within one city when it’s going to have ripple effects throughout the entire region?” Lapsley asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of this year’s statewide legislation want to raise the minimum wage so that families of three or four people stay out of poverty, Lapsley argued that’s something the minimum wage was never intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the wrong debate,” he said. “It’s really about we have to be growing our jobs so that we have middle-class jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lapsley said the business community wants to see the manufacturing sector grow to create more opportunities for Californians to transition out of lower-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $13 minimum wage bill stalled in committee this year, but Leno said he will reignite the push in 2016. The wave of cities raising their minimum wages wasn’t the impetus for his effort, Leno said, but the local efforts “inspire and encourage” the statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a couple of 2016 ballot proposals would set the state minimum wage at $15 an hour, one by 2020 and the other by 2021. Neither has yet qualified for the ballot. Busch said efforts to raise the wage at the local level may give those initiatives momentum, but backers will still need to show voters that the increase wouldn’t hurt the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That $15 minimum wage in Los Angeles couldn’t come soon enough for Flores, who works in an area supermarket. When her pay is increased, she said, she could buy her two sons new clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Couldn’t they raise it right now?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10777885 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10777885",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/01/california-cities-build-momentum-on-minimum-wage-boosts/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1167,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 36
},
"modified": 1450211079,
"excerpt": "In the last 3 years, half of the U.S. cities and counties that have voted to increase their minimum wages have been in California.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "In the last 3 years, half of the U.S. cities and counties that have voted to increase their minimum wages have been in California.",
"title": "California Cities Build Momentum on Minimum Wage Boosts | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "California Cities Build Momentum on Minimum Wage Boosts",
"datePublished": "2015-12-01T11:28:05-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-12-15T12:24:39-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "california-cities-build-momentum-on-minimum-wage-boosts",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/about/staff/pauline-bartolone/\">Pauline Bartolone\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CALmatters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>",
"path": "/news/10777885/california-cities-build-momentum-on-minimum-wage-boosts",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lydia Flores saves gas money by taking a two-hour train ride to and from her cashier job at a Los Angeles supermarket. She tells her teenage sons about another way the family can save on the cost of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eat it slow,” she tells them. “They gotta savor their eggs now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stretch her dollars, Flores gets some food from churches. Her sons wear their uncle’s hand-me-downs. A couple of times a year, she’ll ask a local nonprofit to help pay a utility bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You pay one bill and leave the other. And then, you’ll get the disconnection notice, and then you pay that bill, and then leave another bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235587324&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235587324'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earning $12.88 an hour, Flores supports her two sons on roughly $2,000 a month or less after taxes. That includes a Social Security check her younger son receives because of a developmental disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like hers, of people who work full time and still struggle to meet basic needs, that have fueled groups such as \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for $15\u003c/a> and the movement to raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities have heard their call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California cities lead the charge to raise minimum wage\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last three years, 15 of the 30 cities and counties nationwide that have voted to increase the minimum wage have been in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/topic/minimum-wage-living-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a state that has made it very clear to cities and counties that they have the authority to pass a higher minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that publishes research about low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huizar said some states, like Georgia and Texas, prohibit localities from passing minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts say a mix of politics and economics explain why half of the recent local increases have happened through California regional governments. Andrew Busch of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College said it’s the left-leaning politics and high cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers or voters are more receptive to an increased minimum wage because they see that it just costs a lot more to live in those places,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Fight for $15 movement say getting traction on the city level hasn’t necessarily been the focus of their campaign. It is one of many groups that organized to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. But leaders say their demonstrations have influenced New York State policymakers and employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all types of ways to get there, and I don’t think that the workers really care how they get there. They care that they have $15 so they can get out of poverty,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, actions by the California cities could prove influential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California raised its minimum wage from $8 to $9 an hour in July 2014. The state will raise it again to $10 an hour in January 2016. Large cities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas have passed ordinances to raise their minimum wages to up to $15 an hour by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch said if enough cities adopt an increase, there may be a “psychological momentum” to adopt similar increases statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might begin to make the argument that there are too many cities at risk of losing jobs to competitor cities, and the playing field needs to be leveled out,” Busch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities' minimum wage movements may influence state actions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill this year to raise the minimum wage statewide to $13 with future adjustments for inflation, said higher wages in cities create an opportunity for state policy to make the marketplace fairer for competing businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raising our state minimum wage to be a little closer to some of these higher city and county minimum wages would do that,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Leno said, if cities show that local wage increases don’t “kill jobs,” that would help proponents of the statewide measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777891\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1440x953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the wave of new local wage ordinances has California employers concerned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbrt.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Business Roundtable\u003c/a> hasn’t yet taken a stance on the statewide wage proposals, and says its members don’t employ many low-wage workers. But Robert Lapsley, president of the roundtable, said minimum wage decisions should happen at the state Capitol, with regional economic differences taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you make good public policy if you’re doing it solely within one city when it’s going to have ripple effects throughout the entire region?” Lapsley asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of this year’s statewide legislation want to raise the minimum wage so that families of three or four people stay out of poverty, Lapsley argued that’s something the minimum wage was never intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the wrong debate,” he said. “It’s really about we have to be growing our jobs so that we have middle-class jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lapsley said the business community wants to see the manufacturing sector grow to create more opportunities for Californians to transition out of lower-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $13 minimum wage bill stalled in committee this year, but Leno said he will reignite the push in 2016. The wave of cities raising their minimum wages wasn’t the impetus for his effort, Leno said, but the local efforts “inspire and encourage” the statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a couple of 2016 ballot proposals would set the state minimum wage at $15 an hour, one by 2020 and the other by 2021. Neither has yet qualified for the ballot. Busch said efforts to raise the wage at the local level may give those initiatives momentum, but backers will still need to show voters that the increase wouldn’t hurt the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That $15 minimum wage in Los Angeles couldn’t come soon enough for Flores, who works in an area supermarket. When her pay is increased, she said, she could buy her two sons new clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Couldn’t they raise it right now?\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10777885/california-cities-build-momentum-on-minimum-wage-boosts",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10777885"
],
"programs": [
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_5096",
"news_19904",
"news_2141",
"news_17286",
"news_17041"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_18481"
],
"featImg": "news_10777887",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10776833": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10776833",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10776833",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1448978437000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1448978437,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "What Gets Made in L.A. Is Way More Than Movies",
"title": "What Gets Made in L.A. Is Way More Than Movies",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>In 2015, what has American made? The U.S. is known for manufacturing — it's part of our identity, though jobs have been lost. They've gone overseas. Technology has changed the way things are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, America is still making stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in terms of jobs, the Los Angeles area is the biggest manufacturing hub in the country. There are a few reasons why. There is plenty of space here to build things like factories and runways. That beautiful California weather? It's actually great for testing planes year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infrastructure here is also key. The huge ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles let companies quickly ship products to a global market, and get raw materials to build. A massive logistics region just east of Los Angeles, in the Inland Empire, is the first stop before products get on trucks to go across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-metros-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-metros-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"418px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, there are the people. The huge population base in Southern California is not only a good source of labor, but they also need to buy things, and they provide a built-in market for some manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of challenges, and the region has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flying over L.A. would give you a bird's-eye view of how the geography of the city has been shaped by — and has shaped — manufacturing. On the coast, there are the ports, where $1 billion in goods come in and out every day. The ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Off the coast, ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/455886225/457837774\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland, in the shadow of downtown skyscrapers, there are miles of white-roofed factories, where workers make everything from clothing to furniture, from metal arts to food products. And then, as the city sprawls out, there's the new aerospace industry, which is a smaller, sleeker version of the one that thrived during World War II, the Cold War and the space race with the Soviet Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aerospace has had its heart in L.A. for decades, and SpaceX is a good symbol of the future of that industry. Its headquarters in the L.A. suburb of Hawthorne had at one time been used to make fuselages for Boeing airplanes. Now it houses a private company that's venturing into outer space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg\" alt=\"The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-400x190.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-1180x559.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-960x455.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technology — like drones and satellite communications — is also part of the new aerospace industry in the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area's ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city may be known for Hollywood, but beyond the Hollywood sign and the Hollywood Hills are places like Burbank, where during World War II, big aerospace manufacturers like Lockheed came after getting defense contracts. Once orange groves, these towns offered companies space to make warplanes. Aerospace manufacturers also settled in other towns like Hawthorne and El Segundo, further stretching L.A.'s sprawl and the need for swirls of highway, and, in the process, helping to create the geography of the city today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776893\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg\" alt=\"Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \" width=\"800\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-400x437.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-1180x1288.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-960x1048.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \u003ccite>(Top: Kevin Leahy/NPR; Bottom left: Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty; Bottom right: SpaceX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not like manufacturing is thriving as it had. There are many challenges in this economy. The aerospace industry has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past 25 years. Costs are high in Southern California, and some companies are moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Hynes, CEO of a company that makes jet engine parts called Composites Horizons, has lived through all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly no greater joy for a manufacturer [than] to walk through the factory and hear the noises and sounds of machines turning and people doing work,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father started the company in 1976. \"We're in a transformational time. Just aerospace manufacturing in general, it's a good time. So, yeah, we aren't looking at a cliff,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cliff for Hynes was 1997, when McDonnell Douglas, a huge airplane manufacturer in Los Angeles, left after merging with Boeing in Seattle. Hynes' company, located about 20 miles outside downtown L.A., instantly lost 40 percent of its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we were kind of in a seminal moment in terms of determining where we were going to go with the business,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-e1448919358611.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10776834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-400x244.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing.\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company shrank and then reinvented itself as a maker of niche jet engine parts. A lot of companies have had to take risks like that. Some American manufacturers have figured out that, in this crazy global marketplace, one way to survive is to focus on something high-end or specialized and just do it well. But that's presented another challenge — finding the people who can do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not likely that we're going to find people that are trained in the skills that we need them to be trained in,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialized manufacturers aren't finding the workers they need. The companies are doing training on their own. Schools are adapting, too, given that 80 percent of the world's aerospace fasteners — nuts, bolts, the things that hold one part of a plane to another — are made in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Yaghmai, a professor at El Camino Community College's Compton campus, developed, with industry help, the only community college program in the country that trains machinists to make aerospace fasteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaghmai, 62, who's originally from Iran, spent a majority of his career in the U.S. working as a mechanical engineer for various companies. He's been teaching in Compton for the past 6½ years. \"I felt like I could contribute more,\" he says. \"My wife is African-American, and I like to contribute to the people that are maybe not as economically privileged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compton is an economically depressed community. Only 7 percent of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher. African-Americans were once the majority; now Latinos hold that status\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-industries-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-industries-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"618px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Franz Dirzo's parents migrated from southern Mexico. Dirzo finishes his overnight job operating a forklift for Lowe's at 5 a.m., grabs a bite and a nap and takes classes from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. two days a week. He's hoping he'll land a job in aerospace making more an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hearing things from like $18, $20 [an hour], so, very enticing,\" he says. He currently earns $13 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encouraged his cousin, Jose Lazaro, 24 -- who's working at Home Depot -- to join him. And even though they've had difficulty making it to class on time, and staying awake during the lectures, Lazaro says he and his cousin are determined to finish the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to SpaceX; that's the goal right there,\" Lazaro says. \"I see myself in SpaceX, I see him in SpaceX. That's where we're going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Gets+Made+In+LA+Is+Way+More+Than+Movies&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10776833 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10776833",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/01/what-gets-made-in-l-a-is-way-more-than-movies/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1378,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 33
},
"modified": 1449009999,
"excerpt": "The Los Angeles region is home to the most manufacturing jobs in the nation, with factories producing everything from clothes to metal parts to new aerospace tech. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The Los Angeles region is home to the most manufacturing jobs in the nation, with factories producing everything from clothes to metal parts to new aerospace tech. ",
"title": "What Gets Made in L.A. Is Way More Than Movies | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "What Gets Made in L.A. Is Way More Than Movies",
"datePublished": "2015-12-01T06:00:37-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-12-01T14:46:39-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "what-gets-made-in-l-a-is-way-more-than-movies",
"status": "publish",
"nprApiLink": "http://api.npr.org/query?id=455886225&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/4510160/david-greene\">David Greene\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/130330851/sonari-glinton\">Sonari Glinton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/177485735/shereen-marisol-meraji\">Shereen Marisol Meraji\u003c/a>\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>",
"nprStoryDate": "Mon, 30 Nov 2015 04:43:00 -0500",
"nprLastModifiedDate": "Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:19:53 -0500",
"nprHtmlLink": "http://www.npr.org/2015/11/30/455886225/what-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies?ft=nprml&f=455886225",
"nprAudio": "http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/11/20151130_me_what_gets_made_in_la_is_way_more_than_movies.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&aggIds=351733364&d=605&p=3&story=455886225&t=progseg&e=457831498&seg=1&ft=nprml&f=455886225",
"nprImageAgency": "John Francis Peters for NPR",
"nprAudioM3u": "http://api.npr.org/m3u/1457837774-e8be73.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&aggIds=351733364&d=605&p=3&story=455886225&t=progseg&e=457831498&seg=1&ft=nprml&f=455886225",
"nprStoryId": "455886225",
"nprRetrievedStory": "1",
"nprPubDate": "Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:19:00 -0500",
"path": "/news/10776833/what-gets-made-in-l-a-is-way-more-than-movies",
"audioUrl": "http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/11/20151130_me_what_gets_made_in_la_is_way_more_than_movies.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&aggIds=351733364&d=605&p=3&story=455886225&t=progseg&e=457831498&seg=1&ft=nprml&f=455886225",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2015, what has American made? The U.S. is known for manufacturing — it's part of our identity, though jobs have been lost. They've gone overseas. Technology has changed the way things are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, America is still making stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in terms of jobs, the Los Angeles area is the biggest manufacturing hub in the country. There are a few reasons why. There is plenty of space here to build things like factories and runways. That beautiful California weather? It's actually great for testing planes year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infrastructure here is also key. The huge ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles let companies quickly ship products to a global market, and get raw materials to build. A massive logistics region just east of Los Angeles, in the Inland Empire, is the first stop before products get on trucks to go across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-metros-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-metros-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"418px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, there are the people. The huge population base in Southern California is not only a good source of labor, but they also need to buy things, and they provide a built-in market for some manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of challenges, and the region has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flying over L.A. would give you a bird's-eye view of how the geography of the city has been shaped by — and has shaped — manufacturing. On the coast, there are the ports, where $1 billion in goods come in and out every day. The ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Off the coast, ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/455886225/457837774\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland, in the shadow of downtown skyscrapers, there are miles of white-roofed factories, where workers make everything from clothing to furniture, from metal arts to food products. And then, as the city sprawls out, there's the new aerospace industry, which is a smaller, sleeker version of the one that thrived during World War II, the Cold War and the space race with the Soviet Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aerospace has had its heart in L.A. for decades, and SpaceX is a good symbol of the future of that industry. Its headquarters in the L.A. suburb of Hawthorne had at one time been used to make fuselages for Boeing airplanes. Now it houses a private company that's venturing into outer space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg\" alt=\"The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-400x190.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-1180x559.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-960x455.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technology — like drones and satellite communications — is also part of the new aerospace industry in the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area's ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city may be known for Hollywood, but beyond the Hollywood sign and the Hollywood Hills are places like Burbank, where during World War II, big aerospace manufacturers like Lockheed came after getting defense contracts. Once orange groves, these towns offered companies space to make warplanes. Aerospace manufacturers also settled in other towns like Hawthorne and El Segundo, further stretching L.A.'s sprawl and the need for swirls of highway, and, in the process, helping to create the geography of the city today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776893\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg\" alt=\"Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \" width=\"800\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-400x437.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-1180x1288.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-960x1048.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \u003ccite>(Top: Kevin Leahy/NPR; Bottom left: Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty; Bottom right: SpaceX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not like manufacturing is thriving as it had. There are many challenges in this economy. The aerospace industry has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past 25 years. Costs are high in Southern California, and some companies are moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Hynes, CEO of a company that makes jet engine parts called Composites Horizons, has lived through all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly no greater joy for a manufacturer [than] to walk through the factory and hear the noises and sounds of machines turning and people doing work,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father started the company in 1976. \"We're in a transformational time. Just aerospace manufacturing in general, it's a good time. So, yeah, we aren't looking at a cliff,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cliff for Hynes was 1997, when McDonnell Douglas, a huge airplane manufacturer in Los Angeles, left after merging with Boeing in Seattle. Hynes' company, located about 20 miles outside downtown L.A., instantly lost 40 percent of its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we were kind of in a seminal moment in terms of determining where we were going to go with the business,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-e1448919358611.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10776834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-400x244.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing.\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company shrank and then reinvented itself as a maker of niche jet engine parts. A lot of companies have had to take risks like that. Some American manufacturers have figured out that, in this crazy global marketplace, one way to survive is to focus on something high-end or specialized and just do it well. But that's presented another challenge — finding the people who can do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not likely that we're going to find people that are trained in the skills that we need them to be trained in,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialized manufacturers aren't finding the workers they need. The companies are doing training on their own. Schools are adapting, too, given that 80 percent of the world's aerospace fasteners — nuts, bolts, the things that hold one part of a plane to another — are made in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Yaghmai, a professor at El Camino Community College's Compton campus, developed, with industry help, the only community college program in the country that trains machinists to make aerospace fasteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaghmai, 62, who's originally from Iran, spent a majority of his career in the U.S. working as a mechanical engineer for various companies. He's been teaching in Compton for the past 6½ years. \"I felt like I could contribute more,\" he says. \"My wife is African-American, and I like to contribute to the people that are maybe not as economically privileged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compton is an economically depressed community. Only 7 percent of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher. African-Americans were once the majority; now Latinos hold that status\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-industries-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-industries-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"618px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Franz Dirzo's parents migrated from southern Mexico. Dirzo finishes his overnight job operating a forklift for Lowe's at 5 a.m., grabs a bite and a nap and takes classes from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. two days a week. He's hoping he'll land a job in aerospace making more an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hearing things from like $18, $20 [an hour], so, very enticing,\" he says. He currently earns $13 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encouraged his cousin, Jose Lazaro, 24 -- who's working at Home Depot -- to join him. And even though they've had difficulty making it to class on time, and staying awake during the lectures, Lazaro says he and his cousin are determined to finish the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to SpaceX; that's the goal right there,\" Lazaro says. \"I see myself in SpaceX, I see him in SpaceX. That's where we're going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Gets+Made+In+LA+Is+Way+More+Than+Movies&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10776833/what-gets-made-in-l-a-is-way-more-than-movies",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10776833"
],
"programs": [
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_4",
"news_3167",
"news_17286",
"news_17041"
],
"featImg": "news_10776835",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10769449": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10769449",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10769449",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1448611312000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1448611312,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016",
"title": "Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016",
"headTitle": "Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/gavin-newsom-says-hes-running-for-California-governor-in-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">first candidate\u003c/a> to declare that he will run to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown -- and while the election isn't until 2018, it already seems Newsom is everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Francisco mayor has put himself front and center on three controversial 2016 ballot measures -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">pot legalization\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/gavin-newsom-gun-control-ballot-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">gun control\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/03/gavin-newsom-endorses-state-minimum-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\">higher minimum wage.\u003c/a> They're all issues that could shore up his liberal base and raise his profile in areas of the state where he's not well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also stand to make him some very powerful foes: law enforcement, the gun lobby and the state's business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I am used to multitasking as a mayor ... in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Newsom insists he’ll have time to work on all three measures, while\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Legalizing-pot-on-back-burner-as-Newsom-focuses-6576636.php\" target=\"_blank\"> admitting\u003c/a> that the gun control proposal, which he is not only \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pol-ca-newsom-guns-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">backing but sponsoring\u003c/a>, will take center stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men can multitask,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with KQED, in which he pushed back against pundits who painted his support for the gun measure as \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2015/10/21/newsom-picks-politics-of-guns-over-pot/\" target=\"_blank\">evidence he was abandoning marijuana legalization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the perversity because I am used to multitasking as a mayor,\" he said. \"I always find it curious -- in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many. When you couldn't go a day without focusing on dozens of issues in my old job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also said this isn't all about raising his profile for 2018, contending that if the ballot measures were purely about getting gubernatorial votes, he'd be focusing on the issues Californians say they are most concerned about -- he cited \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">water\u003c/a>, education reform and the \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So for these cynics, that would suggest I'm pretty naive to where public sentiment is,\" he said. \"These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Stop the War on the Poor'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Guns are priority because they should be. Stopping one of the more insidious aspects of the war on drugs -- and that's the war on marijuana, which I think is disproportionately a war on people of color and on poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, \"it's hard not to support the minimum wage (hike) when I was mayor of the city that had the highest minimum wage in the nation, when I left, at the time … so it's not surprising to people that know me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal.' \u003ccite>Law professor Jessica Levinson\u003ccite> \u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a law professor who studies campaign and ethics issues at Loyola Marymount University, said it's all part and parcel of the Gavin Newsom playbook: Play to a liberal base, get ahead on issues that are controversial now but will likely be more broadly embraced in a couple years and also, yes, focus on more mainstream issues like the economy while you are at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's a smart strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal -- and maybe just a few years ahead of the curve,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So by the time we are voting for governor,\" she added, \"we will be looking at Gavin Newsom and saying, 'You had ESP, you knew where the state was going when it came to minimum wage, you knew where things were trending when it came to pot and you saw the importance of stronger gun control before other people were acting on it.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'He Embraces Being a Liberal Democrat'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said Newsom's positions may be risky for a moderate, but \"he can't run away from the fact that he's a liberal Democrat, so I think he's basically decided to embrace it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted the lieutenant governor is also talking about the economy and water -- \"he just made a trip to the Central Valley\" -- but that voters won't be paying attention to the actual governor's race for a year or more anyway, so it makes sense to lay the groundwork around other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770636\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770636\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think he is going to be one of the top contenders, and he’s basically laying claim to a number of areas now,\" Levinson said, noting Newsom has been \"trying to lose the lieutenant part of his title since before the day he was sworn in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's smart to use ballot measures to burnish his political credentials for another reason: Initiatives are not subject to the same campaign finance limits that candidates are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Y\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou can tie yourself to an issue without the same rubric of money restrictions, and in some ways it's less risky, because if a ballot initiative goes down, it's not a referendum on you as a candidate,\" she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backing Sean Parker's Pot Initiative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has indeed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Mayor-offers-package-of-gun-control-laws-He-2560246.php\" target=\"_blank\">been working \u003c/a>on all three \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/ftp/archive/mayornewsom/press-release-mayor-newsom-announces-increase-to-san-franciscos-minimum-wage/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">issues\u003c/a> for several years, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/10/gavin-newsom-to-support-marijuana-legalization-on-2016-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">including marijuana legalization,\u003c/a> and recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">announced his support\u003c/a> for one of more than two dozen potential 2016 legalization measures -- the one\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/sean-parker-backed-marijuana-legalization-measure\" target=\"_blank\"> backed by former Facebook executive and Napster co-founder Sean Parker\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that proposal is the most closely aligned with the framework \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Newsom-s-group-draws-state-s-road-map-to-6159604.php\" target=\"_blank\">set out by the blue-ribbon commission he chaired \u003c/a>on the issue. He also acknowledged that it's the best funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he expressed confidence that the pro-legalization community can coalesce behind one measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"You just have to. If there are two or more initiatives it will fail ... it will confuse voters,\" he said. \"If you care about the cause you have to put aside your differences. If you don't care about your cause, it's about personalities, then they are on a collision course and they are going to set back the movement years and years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lieutenant governor also hinted at what he'll be focusing on beyond 2016 -- and for you cynics, it is one of those issues that polls well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue that defines me literally -- I am not overstating it -- is economic development. It's my passion, it's the issue that transcends all other issues,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, you can't tax your way to prosperity, nor can you cut your way to prosperity. You gotta grow your way to prosperity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe he is looking at those polls, after all.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10769449 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10769449",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/27/gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1170,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 31
},
"modified": 1453921600,
"excerpt": "His plan is to focus on hot ballot measures -- pot legalization, gun control and a higher minimum wage. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "His plan is to focus on hot ballot measures -- pot legalization, gun control and a higher minimum wage. ",
"title": "Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016 | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Gavin Newsom Talks His Three Big Issues For 2016",
"datePublished": "2015-11-27T00:01:52-08:00",
"dateModified": "2016-01-27T11:06:40-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/11/27/Gavin-Newsom-Busy-In-2016/",
"nprStoryId": "464340887",
"path": "/news/10769449/gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/11/gavin-newsom-says-hes-running-for-California-governor-in-2018/\" target=\"_blank\">first candidate\u003c/a> to declare that he will run to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown -- and while the election isn't until 2018, it already seems Newsom is everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Francisco mayor has put himself front and center on three controversial 2016 ballot measures -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">pot legalization\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/15/gavin-newsom-gun-control-ballot-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">gun control\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/11/03/gavin-newsom-endorses-state-minimum-wage.html\" target=\"_blank\">higher minimum wage.\u003c/a> They're all issues that could shore up his liberal base and raise his profile in areas of the state where he's not well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also stand to make him some very powerful foes: law enforcement, the gun lobby and the state's business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I am used to multitasking as a mayor ... in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Newsom insists he’ll have time to work on all three measures, while\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Legalizing-pot-on-back-burner-as-Newsom-focuses-6576636.php\" target=\"_blank\"> admitting\u003c/a> that the gun control proposal, which he is not only \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pol-ca-newsom-guns-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">backing but sponsoring\u003c/a>, will take center stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men can multitask,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with KQED, in which he pushed back against pundits who painted his support for the gun measure as \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2015/10/21/newsom-picks-politics-of-guns-over-pot/\" target=\"_blank\">evidence he was abandoning marijuana legalization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the perversity because I am used to multitasking as a mayor,\" he said. \"I always find it curious -- in Sacramento, you are supposed to focus on one or two issues. Three is too many. When you couldn't go a day without focusing on dozens of issues in my old job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also said this isn't all about raising his profile for 2018, contending that if the ballot measures were purely about getting gubernatorial votes, he'd be focusing on the issues Californians say they are most concerned about -- he cited \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">water\u003c/a>, education reform and the \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So for these cynics, that would suggest I'm pretty naive to where public sentiment is,\" he said. \"These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Stop the War on the Poor'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Guns are priority because they should be. Stopping one of the more insidious aspects of the war on drugs -- and that's the war on marijuana, which I think is disproportionately a war on people of color and on poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, \"it's hard not to support the minimum wage (hike) when I was mayor of the city that had the highest minimum wage in the nation, when I left, at the time … so it's not surprising to people that know me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal.' \u003ccite>Law professor Jessica Levinson\u003ccite> \u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, a law professor who studies campaign and ethics issues at Loyola Marymount University, said it's all part and parcel of the Gavin Newsom playbook: Play to a liberal base, get ahead on issues that are controversial now but will likely be more broadly embraced in a couple years and also, yes, focus on more mainstream issues like the economy while you are at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's a smart strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Gavin Newsom knows his brand very well, and it's using his office and using ballot measures to really try and come out clearly as a solid liberal -- and maybe just a few years ahead of the curve,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So by the time we are voting for governor,\" she added, \"we will be looking at Gavin Newsom and saying, 'You had ESP, you knew where the state was going when it came to minimum wage, you knew where things were trending when it came to pot and you saw the importance of stronger gun control before other people were acting on it.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'He Embraces Being a Liberal Democrat'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said Newsom's positions may be risky for a moderate, but \"he can't run away from the fact that he's a liberal Democrat, so I think he's basically decided to embrace it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted the lieutenant governor is also talking about the economy and water -- \"he just made a trip to the Central Valley\" -- but that voters won't be paying attention to the actual governor's race for a year or more anyway, so it makes sense to lay the groundwork around other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770636\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770636\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/4319_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on KQED's Newsroom. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think he is going to be one of the top contenders, and he’s basically laying claim to a number of areas now,\" Levinson said, noting Newsom has been \"trying to lose the lieutenant part of his title since before the day he was sworn in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's smart to use ballot measures to burnish his political credentials for another reason: Initiatives are not subject to the same campaign finance limits that candidates are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Y\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou can tie yourself to an issue without the same rubric of money restrictions, and in some ways it's less risky, because if a ballot initiative goes down, it's not a referendum on you as a candidate,\" she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Backing Sean Parker's Pot Initiative\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has indeed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Mayor-offers-package-of-gun-control-laws-He-2560246.php\" target=\"_blank\">been working \u003c/a>on all three \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/ftp/archive/mayornewsom/press-release-mayor-newsom-announces-increase-to-san-franciscos-minimum-wage/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">issues\u003c/a> for several years, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/10/gavin-newsom-to-support-marijuana-legalization-on-2016-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">including marijuana legalization,\u003c/a> and recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gavin-Newsom-endorses-tech-funded-weed-6606379.php\" target=\"_blank\">announced his support\u003c/a> for one of more than two dozen potential 2016 legalization measures -- the one\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/02/sean-parker-backed-marijuana-legalization-measure\" target=\"_blank\"> backed by former Facebook executive and Napster co-founder Sean Parker\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that proposal is the most closely aligned with the framework \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Newsom-s-group-draws-state-s-road-map-to-6159604.php\" target=\"_blank\">set out by the blue-ribbon commission he chaired \u003c/a>on the issue. He also acknowledged that it's the best funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he expressed confidence that the pro-legalization community can coalesce behind one measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'These initiatives are things I care deeply about as a parent.' \u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"You just have to. If there are two or more initiatives it will fail ... it will confuse voters,\" he said. \"If you care about the cause you have to put aside your differences. If you don't care about your cause, it's about personalities, then they are on a collision course and they are going to set back the movement years and years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lieutenant governor also hinted at what he'll be focusing on beyond 2016 -- and for you cynics, it is one of those issues that polls well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue that defines me literally -- I am not overstating it -- is economic development. It's my passion, it's the issue that transcends all other issues,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, you can't tax your way to prosperity, nor can you cut your way to prosperity. You gotta grow your way to prosperity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe he is looking at those polls, after all.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10769449/gavin-newsom-talks-his-three-big-issues-for-2016",
"authors": [
"3239"
],
"programs": [
"news_7051",
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"series": [
"news_19101"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_6188",
"news_13"
],
"tags": [
"news_16",
"news_2795",
"news_102"
],
"featImg": "news_10769450",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10766031": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10766031",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10766031",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1448055023000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1448055023,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Square Goes Public And Fields A Flood Of Customer Complaints",
"title": "Square Goes Public And Fields A Flood Of Customer Complaints",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>You've probably seen \u003ca href=\"http://www.squareup.com\">Square's white plastic reader\u003c/a> -- it's a small square that plugs in to a smartphone or tablet. Customers swipe their card and the money is put into the merchant's Square account. It's really easy for small and new businesses to get an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service is getting extra attention this week because of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/11/19/456677714/do-underwhelming-square-match-ipos-mean-bubble-trouble\" target=\"_blank\">initial public offering on Thursday\u003c/a> -- a market debut that left many observers underwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand Square's basic value proposition, consider Michael Barzman. After years of working as an auctioneer for other people, he went out on his own. He started using Square but after a few transactions received an email that said, \"Hello Michael. We are sorry to inform you that we are deactivating your account. Our account services team has reviewed your account and found a pattern of transactions associated with high risk activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barzman didn't understand why Square froze his account. Square was also holding more than $10,000 of his money and wouldn't release it for 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought that was such an exorbitant amount of time and it freaked me out being a new business,\" says Barzman. \"My initial thought was, 'I'm done, this is going to be the end of me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse, Barzman says that once your account is deactivated you can't get anyone on the phone from Square. Fortunately, Barzman had a business partner who helped him out financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low Fees Attract Merchants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search for \"Square account deactivation\" online and stories just like Barzman's pop up. Take Gary Gaskill, who recently started a business selling packaging equipment — boxes, tape dispensers and stuff like that. He'd heard about Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their prices were right,\" says Gaskill. \"And, you know, it looked like a good deal and so I bought into it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after he did a few transactions, Gaskill received the same email that Barzman got. His account was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They refused to tell you why they closed the account,\" says Gaskill. \"It was like, why would you do this and not be able to tell somebody? It's my account. Why can't you tell me why you closed my account? And you're holding my money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security experts say a 90-day hold on a potentially fraudulent account is within the norm. And Square has a right to be jumpy, says Marc Abbey, a managing partner at First Annapolis Consulting, which advises banks, payment networks and retailers. Abbey says Square takes risks on pop-ups and food trucks -- businesses that never would have been authorized to take credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And all of those characteristics lead to a higher level of risk for a company like Square,\" says Abbey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square: Must Protect Us and Our Customers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Square says it's trying to balance the needs of sellers with the necessity of protecting itself against fraud. If the credit card charges turn out to be fraudulent, Square is on the hook. It says the number of dissatisfied customers is small. Because the company just went public, its ability to speak further is limited by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amad Ebrahimi runs a website called Merchant Maverick, which reviews mobile payment companies. He's had hundreds of complaints about Square on his site. He doesn't see a good reason for the lack of communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There should be some investment in a risk department that focuses exclusively on phone communication and getting these issues resolved as quickly as possible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ebrahimi points out that Square is no longer alone in mobile payments. There's PayPal, traditional banks and smaller competitors like Flint — which Ebrahimi favors because it has good customer support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auctioneer Michael Barzman says word is getting out that Square isn't always user-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You could not force me to use Square again!\" says Barzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Square does have phone help for active accounts, but it hasn't solved the problem of customers who have their accounts terminated. They're left out in the cold with no one to talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Square+Goes+Public+And+Fields+A+Flood+Of+Customer+Complaints&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10766031 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10766031",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/20/square-goes-public-and-fields-a-flood-of-customer-complaints/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 694,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 23
},
"modified": 1448065804,
"excerpt": "The mobile payment startup Square has grown rapidly and went public this week. But it is dogged by complaints from small businesses that use it.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The mobile payment startup Square has grown rapidly and went public this week. But it is dogged by complaints from small businesses that use it.",
"title": "Square Goes Public And Fields A Flood Of Customer Complaints | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Square Goes Public And Fields A Flood Of Customer Complaints",
"datePublished": "2015-11-20T13:30:23-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-11-20T16:30:04-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "square-goes-public-and-fields-a-flood-of-customer-complaints",
"status": "publish",
"nprApiLink": "http://api.npr.org/query?id=456635063&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2101272/laura-sydell\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Sydell\u003c/a>\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>",
"nprStoryDate": "Fri, 20 Nov 2015 04:33:00 -0500",
"nprLastModifiedDate": "Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:33:51 -0500",
"nprHtmlLink": "http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/11/20/456635063/square-goes-public-and-fields-a-flood-of-customer-complaints?ft=nprml&f=456635063",
"nprAudio": "http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/11/20151120_me_square_goes_public_and_fields_a_flood_of_customer_complaints.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=217&p=3&story=456635063&t=progseg&e=456750565&seg=15&ft=nprml&f=456635063",
"nprAudioM3u": "http://api.npr.org/m3u/1456752068-89b91f.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=217&p=3&story=456635063&t=progseg&e=456750565&seg=15&ft=nprml&f=456635063",
"nprStoryId": "456635063",
"nprRetrievedStory": "1",
"nprPubDate": "Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:07:00 -0500",
"path": "/news/10766031/square-goes-public-and-fields-a-flood-of-customer-complaints",
"audioUrl": "http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/11/20151120_me_square_goes_public_and_fields_a_flood_of_customer_complaints.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=217&p=3&story=456635063&t=progseg&e=456750565&seg=15&ft=nprml&f=456635063",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You've probably seen \u003ca href=\"http://www.squareup.com\">Square's white plastic reader\u003c/a> -- it's a small square that plugs in to a smartphone or tablet. Customers swipe their card and the money is put into the merchant's Square account. It's really easy for small and new businesses to get an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service is getting extra attention this week because of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/11/19/456677714/do-underwhelming-square-match-ipos-mean-bubble-trouble\" target=\"_blank\">initial public offering on Thursday\u003c/a> -- a market debut that left many observers underwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand Square's basic value proposition, consider Michael Barzman. After years of working as an auctioneer for other people, he went out on his own. He started using Square but after a few transactions received an email that said, \"Hello Michael. We are sorry to inform you that we are deactivating your account. Our account services team has reviewed your account and found a pattern of transactions associated with high risk activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barzman didn't understand why Square froze his account. Square was also holding more than $10,000 of his money and wouldn't release it for 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought that was such an exorbitant amount of time and it freaked me out being a new business,\" says Barzman. \"My initial thought was, 'I'm done, this is going to be the end of me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even worse, Barzman says that once your account is deactivated you can't get anyone on the phone from Square. Fortunately, Barzman had a business partner who helped him out financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low Fees Attract Merchants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Search for \"Square account deactivation\" online and stories just like Barzman's pop up. Take Gary Gaskill, who recently started a business selling packaging equipment — boxes, tape dispensers and stuff like that. He'd heard about Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their prices were right,\" says Gaskill. \"And, you know, it looked like a good deal and so I bought into it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after he did a few transactions, Gaskill received the same email that Barzman got. His account was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They refused to tell you why they closed the account,\" says Gaskill. \"It was like, why would you do this and not be able to tell somebody? It's my account. Why can't you tell me why you closed my account? And you're holding my money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security experts say a 90-day hold on a potentially fraudulent account is within the norm. And Square has a right to be jumpy, says Marc Abbey, a managing partner at First Annapolis Consulting, which advises banks, payment networks and retailers. Abbey says Square takes risks on pop-ups and food trucks -- businesses that never would have been authorized to take credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And all of those characteristics lead to a higher level of risk for a company like Square,\" says Abbey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Square: Must Protect Us and Our Customers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Square says it's trying to balance the needs of sellers with the necessity of protecting itself against fraud. If the credit card charges turn out to be fraudulent, Square is on the hook. It says the number of dissatisfied customers is small. Because the company just went public, its ability to speak further is limited by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amad Ebrahimi runs a website called Merchant Maverick, which reviews mobile payment companies. He's had hundreds of complaints about Square on his site. He doesn't see a good reason for the lack of communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There should be some investment in a risk department that focuses exclusively on phone communication and getting these issues resolved as quickly as possible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ebrahimi points out that Square is no longer alone in mobile payments. There's PayPal, traditional banks and smaller competitors like Flint — which Ebrahimi favors because it has good customer support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auctioneer Michael Barzman says word is getting out that Square isn't always user-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You could not force me to use Square again!\" says Barzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Square does have phone help for active accounts, but it hasn't solved the problem of customers who have their accounts terminated. They're left out in the cold with no one to talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Square+Goes+Public+And+Fields+A+Flood+Of+Customer+Complaints&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10766031/square-goes-public-and-fields-a-flood-of-customer-complaints",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10766031"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_18786"
],
"featImg": "news_10766032",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10761651": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10761651",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10761651",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1448035205000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness",
"title": "A Year After 'The Jungle,' San Jose's New Approach to Homelessness",
"publishDate": 1448035205,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "A Year After ‘The Jungle,’ San Jose’s New Approach to Homelessness | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 72,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Second Street Studios would be city's first apartment complex totally dedicated to the chronically homeless.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1729029680,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 27,
"wordCount": 1389
},
"headData": {
"title": "A Year After 'The Jungle,' San Jose's New Approach to Homelessness | KQED",
"description": "Second Street Studios would be city's first apartment complex totally dedicated to the chronically homeless.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "A Year After 'The Jungle,' San Jose's New Approach to Homelessness",
"datePublished": "2015-11-20T08:00:05-08:00",
"dateModified": "2024-10-15T15:01:20-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness",
"authors": [
"251"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"series": [
"news_19491"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_6266",
"news_8",
"news_33520",
"news_13",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_3921",
"news_4020",
"news_1775",
"news_2011",
"news_18541",
"news_17286",
"news_1631"
],
"featImg": "news_10762231",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10752423": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10752423",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10752423",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1447142704000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1447142704,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "First U.S.-Mexico Wind Energy Project Faces Legal Challenge",
"title": "First U.S.-Mexico Wind Energy Project Faces Legal Challenge",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>A historic wind farm in Mexico started sending electricity across the border into San Diego County \u003ca href=\"http://www.intergen.com/intergen-and-ienova-begin-commercial-operation-of-energia-sierra-juarez-wind-project/\">this summer\u003c/a>, but some residents are still fighting it in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, is the first cross-border wind generation project between the U.S. and Mexico. Although clean energy collaboration was on the agenda for industry leaders meeting at San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://borderenergyforum.org/\">Border Energy Forum\u003c/a> in mid-October, some residents claim its first incarnation violates the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind farm in Rumorosa, Baja California, sells 100 percent of its output to San Diego Gas & Electric under a 20-year $820 million power purchase agreement. Sempra affiliates IEnova and InterGen plan to expand the farm’s capacity for 155 megawatts by up to \u003ca href=\"http://ienova.com.mx/english/services-esj.html\">700 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 1,200-megawatt capacity and hundreds of new turbines, its output would be comparable with that of the largest wind farm in the U.S., Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County. Subsequent phases could theoretically connect to the Mexican grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/t5RpP_As0DI?list=PL_wiEYr9F4eleQRF5vKl0wxe4Go6HGXly\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is part of a binational scramble for clean energy. California must get \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/10/08/california-wants-renewable-energy-for-half-its-power-by-2030\">half of its electricity\u003c/a> from renewables by 2030, up from a previous target of 33 percent. Mexico recently set a target of \u003ca href=\"http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2014/05/mexicos-newly-opened-energy-market-attracts-renewables.html\">35 percent\u003c/a> by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these agencies and companies are in lockstep on this green energy rush, whether it’s actually beneficial to us or not,” said Donna Tisdale, a resident of Boulevard in East San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale is leading the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez, which also names the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Among other things, the lawsuit claims the Department of Energy issued a presidential permit without considering environmental impacts in Mexico or alternative clean energy projects, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All one landscape’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra de Juárez mountain range where the turbines are located is part of what environmentalists call “the Western spine” of North America. The landscape includes coniferous forest, desert scrub, chaparral and piñon pine. The area is home to the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, mountain lions, California condors, golden eagles and other cross-border creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I would like to see Californians take more responsibility for conservation in Mexico because it is all one landscape'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents to Energía Sierra Juárez argue the wind farm hurts wildlife and is disrupting migration patterns on both sides of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Natural resources don’t recognize any sort of political boundaries,” said Jerre Stallcup, senior conservation ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental impacts in Mexico can have consequences in the U.S., she said. She is not part of the lawsuit against the wind farm, but she said she is concerned about its environmental impacts and has launched \u003ca href=\"http://consbio.org/products/projects/conservation-california-baja\">an initiative\u003c/a> to protect the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752431\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-800x442.jpg\" alt=\"A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would just like to see Californians take more responsibility for resource conservation and management in Mexico because it is all one landscape,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Sempra Energy also declined an interview, but operator IEnova said in an email that the company is “committed to the respect, protection and conservation of the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company cited an on-site nursery containing nearly 7,000 rescued plants, a bird and bat monitoring program and the safe relocation of 95 rattlesnakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green lights from Mexican officials\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the court documents, defendants argue they don’t have to consider environmental impacts in Mexico, so long as that country approves. Mexico’s national environmental agency, Semarnat, gave the project a green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It not only meets the environmental impact requirements, it also deals with climate change and global warming problems,” said Alfonso Blancafort, Semarnat’s federal representative in Baja California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752610\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-400x227.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blancafort said that although Mexico is not yet receiving any of the project’s electricity, the country and the environment as a whole are benefiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have the perception of being a region. If we have a wind farm that generates electricity with a low impact on the environment and lower emissions to the atmosphere, this whole region benefits,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A new chapter of collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nadb.org/Reports1/Press_Releases/english/2015/081915.htm\">inauguration ceremony\u003c/a> in August, top Mexican officials applauded the wind farm, saying it signals a new chapter of clean energy collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico’s energy minister, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, said, “Baja California is distinguishing itself as a state that bets on clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeping energy reforms in Mexico helped push the project forward, as President Enrique Peña Nieto opened the market to private investment and set new clean energy targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the U.S. and the Mexican governments have been, as part of the bilateral agenda, talking about increasing collaboration on renewable energy, especially along the border,” said Gerónimo Gutiérrez, president of the North American Development Bank, which helped finance the $300 million Baja California wind farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say (Energía Sierra Juárez) is a good and clear example of what can be accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The failed fight in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Mexican environmental organization Terra Peninsular filed a lawsuit against Semarnat for approving the project’s environmental impact assessment for Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environmental impact assessments are not done properly,” said Terra Peninsular board member Oracio De la Cueva. “They’re rubber-stamped and we don’t see a follow-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental impact assessment, known as an MIA in Mexico, outlined an impact area of hundreds of square miles without specifying exact locations of turbines, roads and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact locations are important, De La Cueva said, because they determine how much of an impact there would be on wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never read or come across an application for an impact permit that was so poorly undertaken,” said Aaron Quintanar, a San Diego resident and environmentalist who served as an adviser in the Mexican lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he cares about the Sierra de Juárez because he \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jan/07/pursuit-green-energy-sources-expands-mexico/\">often visits to hike\u003c/a> and enjoy nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my wild place,” Quintanar said . “My whole life I’ve been up here on these ranges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Semarnat’s Blancafort said the MIA met the legal requirements in Mexico. The Mexican lawsuit failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The U.S. lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Ostrander lives in Jacumba Hot Springs, footsteps from the border fence. His property is a maze of vintage machines and other equipment he tinkers with and recycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I just make stuff,” he said. “I don’t like to see stuff thrown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He even installed a vertical axis wind turbine on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t pay a utility bill at this point because I have solar and wind,” he said. “I’m trying to do my part to reduce my carbon footprint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it may come as a surprise to learn that Ostrander is part of the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander can see the turbines from his property, and he says their flashing red lights have ruined his stargazing opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, though, he said he’s concerned about fire. Ostrander is a retired battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. He fought fires for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the industrial scale of Energia Sierra Juarez makes it a fire threat, especially during drought. The first phase alone includes 47 turbines, a nearly 5-mile cross-border transmission line and 25 miles of new roads. The project required the construction of a $435 million substation just north of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the region’s worst wildfires in recent history were caused by power lines, such as the 2007 Witch Fire, Ostrander said. And roads encourage traffic, which increases the risk of human-induced fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander is also concerned about environmental damage. He said bobcats, deer and other wild animals have started showing up on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much encroachment on their territory that they’re looking for any safe place, and I don’t harass them, so they just stay here,” he said. “But I have to watch out for my pets because they may become dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The woman behind the legal challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale, the Boulevard resident who is leading the fight against Energía Sierra Juárez, said she knows she won’t be able to undo the first phase of the project. But there’s still the expansion to think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be of a certain persuasion to enjoy country life, and not everybody appreciates it, but it’s really missed when it’s gone,” said Tisdale, who has been likened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2011/dec/02/backcountry-warrior-donna-tisdale-keeps-up-the-f/\">a local Erin Brockovich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752616\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is just one of numerous wind farms and other industrial projects that Tisdale is fighting or has challenged with her nonprofit, Backcountry Against Dumps. It started in the late '80s, when she helped the Campo Indians fight off a 600-acre landfill they believed would poison their wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is concerned about the possible human health risks, in addition to environmental impacts tied to Energía Sierra Juárez. Like Ostrander, Tisdale can see the turbines from her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turbines generate a low-frequency noise, and some of it’s actually infrasound, where you cannot physically hear it but your body’s reacting to it, so it triggers what is called the fight-or-flight response,” she said. “You may not realize what is stressing you out, or what’s draining your adrenal glands, but you’re actually being affected by the wind turbines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 Institute For Energy Research \u003ca href=\"http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Hard-Facts-May-2014-Final.pdf\">Hard Facts report\u003c/a> cites a Minnesota Department of Health study as evidence that there are negative human health impacts from wind farms, such as those described by Tisdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asfaw Beyene, professor of mechanical engineering at San Diego State University, said he’s not convinced. He said the only serious concern related to wind farms is the fact that they kill birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These discomforts are quite minor compared to the global problem we are facing in terms of climate change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is expected to displace nearly 126,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. That's equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 27,000 average passenger vehicles, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/climate/documents/420f14040a.pdf\">2014 data\u003c/a> from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a September order, U.S. District Judge James Lorenz dismissed plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment on environmental issues. But he granted that the Department of Energy did not adequately consider alternatives to Energía Sierra Juárez. He said the statement of purpose and need for the presidential permit \"focused almost exclusively on private interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatives include distributive options like Ostrander’s home solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like energy should be generated closer to the point of use,” Tisdale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would eliminate the need for long transmission lines and decrease wildlife damage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Praise from Mexicans who live near the turbines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexicans who live next to the turbines say they’re happy with them. The wind farm is located on the communally owned land of Ejido Jacumé, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lease the land to the company, right? And the company put the turbines, giving us a percentage of their profits,” said José Mercado, a 62-year-old resident of Jacumé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumé resident José Mercado stands behind the counter of a supermarket near the center of town, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumé resident José Mercado stands behind the counter of a supermarket near the center of town, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each of the 76 members of the commune gets about $25 per person on the lease, while dividing 4 percent of revenues from the sale of electricity. That amounts to about $2,000 a month, Mercado said. That’s huge for Jacumé, where the primary income source had been livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land wasn’t apt for plantings, or even construction, because it’s all just rock,” he said. “(The wind farm) gives us money to survive without having to work. That’s what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s concerned about possible harm to wildlife, but he decided it wasn’t his priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the way of the Mexican. We see the cash and the present, not the people in front or behind us. Like the government, which thinks only of its purse, and says, countrymen, figure things out on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulevard, Tisdale said she doesn’t blame the residents of Jacumé for accepting the wind farm on their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t have anything, and someone offers you something, it’s hard to say no,” she said. “And we don’t hold that against people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s why she sees it as her responsibility to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10752423 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10752423",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/10/first-u-s-mexico-wind-energy-project-sees-legal-challenge/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 2373,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 73
},
"modified": 1447119537,
"excerpt": "The historic wind farm in Mexico is part of a binational scramble for clean energy, but some residents are fighting it in federal court.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The historic wind farm in Mexico is part of a binational scramble for clean energy, but some residents are fighting it in federal court.",
"title": "First U.S.-Mexico Wind Energy Project Faces Legal Challenge | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "First U.S.-Mexico Wind Energy Project Faces Legal Challenge",
"datePublished": "2015-11-10T00:05:04-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-11-09T17:38:57-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "first-u-s-mexico-wind-energy-project-sees-legal-challenge",
"status": "publish",
"sourceUrl": "http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/13/first-us-mexico-wind-farm-sees-legal-challenge/",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/staff/jean-guerrero/\">Jean Guerrero\u003c/a>\u003cbr>KPBS\u003c/strong>",
"source": "KPBS",
"path": "/news/10752423/first-u-s-mexico-wind-energy-project-sees-legal-challenge",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A historic wind farm in Mexico started sending electricity across the border into San Diego County \u003ca href=\"http://www.intergen.com/intergen-and-ienova-begin-commercial-operation-of-energia-sierra-juarez-wind-project/\">this summer\u003c/a>, but some residents are still fighting it in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, is the first cross-border wind generation project between the U.S. and Mexico. Although clean energy collaboration was on the agenda for industry leaders meeting at San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://borderenergyforum.org/\">Border Energy Forum\u003c/a> in mid-October, some residents claim its first incarnation violates the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind farm in Rumorosa, Baja California, sells 100 percent of its output to San Diego Gas & Electric under a 20-year $820 million power purchase agreement. Sempra affiliates IEnova and InterGen plan to expand the farm’s capacity for 155 megawatts by up to \u003ca href=\"http://ienova.com.mx/english/services-esj.html\">700 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 1,200-megawatt capacity and hundreds of new turbines, its output would be comparable with that of the largest wind farm in the U.S., Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County. Subsequent phases could theoretically connect to the Mexican grid.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/t5RpP_As0DI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/t5RpP_As0DI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is part of a binational scramble for clean energy. California must get \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/10/08/california-wants-renewable-energy-for-half-its-power-by-2030\">half of its electricity\u003c/a> from renewables by 2030, up from a previous target of 33 percent. Mexico recently set a target of \u003ca href=\"http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2014/05/mexicos-newly-opened-energy-market-attracts-renewables.html\">35 percent\u003c/a> by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these agencies and companies are in lockstep on this green energy rush, whether it’s actually beneficial to us or not,” said Donna Tisdale, a resident of Boulevard in East San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale is leading the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez, which also names the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Among other things, the lawsuit claims the Department of Energy issued a presidential permit without considering environmental impacts in Mexico or alternative clean energy projects, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All one landscape’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra de Juárez mountain range where the turbines are located is part of what environmentalists call “the Western spine” of North America. The landscape includes coniferous forest, desert scrub, chaparral and piñon pine. The area is home to the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, mountain lions, California condors, golden eagles and other cross-border creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I would like to see Californians take more responsibility for conservation in Mexico because it is all one landscape'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents to Energía Sierra Juárez argue the wind farm hurts wildlife and is disrupting migration patterns on both sides of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Natural resources don’t recognize any sort of political boundaries,” said Jerre Stallcup, senior conservation ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental impacts in Mexico can have consequences in the U.S., she said. She is not part of the lawsuit against the wind farm, but she said she is concerned about its environmental impacts and has launched \u003ca href=\"http://consbio.org/products/projects/conservation-california-baja\">an initiative\u003c/a> to protect the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752431\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-800x442.jpg\" alt=\"A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would just like to see Californians take more responsibility for resource conservation and management in Mexico because it is all one landscape,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Sempra Energy also declined an interview, but operator IEnova said in an email that the company is “committed to the respect, protection and conservation of the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company cited an on-site nursery containing nearly 7,000 rescued plants, a bird and bat monitoring program and the safe relocation of 95 rattlesnakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green lights from Mexican officials\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the court documents, defendants argue they don’t have to consider environmental impacts in Mexico, so long as that country approves. Mexico’s national environmental agency, Semarnat, gave the project a green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It not only meets the environmental impact requirements, it also deals with climate change and global warming problems,” said Alfonso Blancafort, Semarnat’s federal representative in Baja California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752610\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-400x227.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blancafort said that although Mexico is not yet receiving any of the project’s electricity, the country and the environment as a whole are benefiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have the perception of being a region. If we have a wind farm that generates electricity with a low impact on the environment and lower emissions to the atmosphere, this whole region benefits,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A new chapter of collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nadb.org/Reports1/Press_Releases/english/2015/081915.htm\">inauguration ceremony\u003c/a> in August, top Mexican officials applauded the wind farm, saying it signals a new chapter of clean energy collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico’s energy minister, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, said, “Baja California is distinguishing itself as a state that bets on clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeping energy reforms in Mexico helped push the project forward, as President Enrique Peña Nieto opened the market to private investment and set new clean energy targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the U.S. and the Mexican governments have been, as part of the bilateral agenda, talking about increasing collaboration on renewable energy, especially along the border,” said Gerónimo Gutiérrez, president of the North American Development Bank, which helped finance the $300 million Baja California wind farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say (Energía Sierra Juárez) is a good and clear example of what can be accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The failed fight in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Mexican environmental organization Terra Peninsular filed a lawsuit against Semarnat for approving the project’s environmental impact assessment for Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environmental impact assessments are not done properly,” said Terra Peninsular board member Oracio De la Cueva. “They’re rubber-stamped and we don’t see a follow-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental impact assessment, known as an MIA in Mexico, outlined an impact area of hundreds of square miles without specifying exact locations of turbines, roads and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact locations are important, De La Cueva said, because they determine how much of an impact there would be on wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never read or come across an application for an impact permit that was so poorly undertaken,” said Aaron Quintanar, a San Diego resident and environmentalist who served as an adviser in the Mexican lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he cares about the Sierra de Juárez because he \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jan/07/pursuit-green-energy-sources-expands-mexico/\">often visits to hike\u003c/a> and enjoy nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my wild place,” Quintanar said . “My whole life I’ve been up here on these ranges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Semarnat’s Blancafort said the MIA met the legal requirements in Mexico. The Mexican lawsuit failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The U.S. lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Ostrander lives in Jacumba Hot Springs, footsteps from the border fence. His property is a maze of vintage machines and other equipment he tinkers with and recycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I just make stuff,” he said. “I don’t like to see stuff thrown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He even installed a vertical axis wind turbine on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t pay a utility bill at this point because I have solar and wind,” he said. “I’m trying to do my part to reduce my carbon footprint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it may come as a surprise to learn that Ostrander is part of the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander can see the turbines from his property, and he says their flashing red lights have ruined his stargazing opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, though, he said he’s concerned about fire. Ostrander is a retired battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. He fought fires for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the industrial scale of Energia Sierra Juarez makes it a fire threat, especially during drought. The first phase alone includes 47 turbines, a nearly 5-mile cross-border transmission line and 25 miles of new roads. The project required the construction of a $435 million substation just north of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the region’s worst wildfires in recent history were caused by power lines, such as the 2007 Witch Fire, Ostrander said. And roads encourage traffic, which increases the risk of human-induced fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander is also concerned about environmental damage. He said bobcats, deer and other wild animals have started showing up on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much encroachment on their territory that they’re looking for any safe place, and I don’t harass them, so they just stay here,” he said. “But I have to watch out for my pets because they may become dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The woman behind the legal challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale, the Boulevard resident who is leading the fight against Energía Sierra Juárez, said she knows she won’t be able to undo the first phase of the project. But there’s still the expansion to think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be of a certain persuasion to enjoy country life, and not everybody appreciates it, but it’s really missed when it’s gone,” said Tisdale, who has been likened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2011/dec/02/backcountry-warrior-donna-tisdale-keeps-up-the-f/\">a local Erin Brockovich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752616\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is just one of numerous wind farms and other industrial projects that Tisdale is fighting or has challenged with her nonprofit, Backcountry Against Dumps. It started in the late '80s, when she helped the Campo Indians fight off a 600-acre landfill they believed would poison their wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is concerned about the possible human health risks, in addition to environmental impacts tied to Energía Sierra Juárez. Like Ostrander, Tisdale can see the turbines from her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turbines generate a low-frequency noise, and some of it’s actually infrasound, where you cannot physically hear it but your body’s reacting to it, so it triggers what is called the fight-or-flight response,” she said. “You may not realize what is stressing you out, or what’s draining your adrenal glands, but you’re actually being affected by the wind turbines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 Institute For Energy Research \u003ca href=\"http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Hard-Facts-May-2014-Final.pdf\">Hard Facts report\u003c/a> cites a Minnesota Department of Health study as evidence that there are negative human health impacts from wind farms, such as those described by Tisdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asfaw Beyene, professor of mechanical engineering at San Diego State University, said he’s not convinced. He said the only serious concern related to wind farms is the fact that they kill birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These discomforts are quite minor compared to the global problem we are facing in terms of climate change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is expected to displace nearly 126,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. That's equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 27,000 average passenger vehicles, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/climate/documents/420f14040a.pdf\">2014 data\u003c/a> from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a September order, U.S. District Judge James Lorenz dismissed plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment on environmental issues. But he granted that the Department of Energy did not adequately consider alternatives to Energía Sierra Juárez. He said the statement of purpose and need for the presidential permit \"focused almost exclusively on private interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatives include distributive options like Ostrander’s home solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like energy should be generated closer to the point of use,” Tisdale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would eliminate the need for long transmission lines and decrease wildlife damage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Praise from Mexicans who live near the turbines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexicans who live next to the turbines say they’re happy with them. The wind farm is located on the communally owned land of Ejido Jacumé, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lease the land to the company, right? And the company put the turbines, giving us a percentage of their profits,” said José Mercado, a 62-year-old resident of Jacumé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumé resident José Mercado stands behind the counter of a supermarket near the center of town, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumé resident José Mercado stands behind the counter of a supermarket near the center of town, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each of the 76 members of the commune gets about $25 per person on the lease, while dividing 4 percent of revenues from the sale of electricity. That amounts to about $2,000 a month, Mercado said. That’s huge for Jacumé, where the primary income source had been livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land wasn’t apt for plantings, or even construction, because it’s all just rock,” he said. “(The wind farm) gives us money to survive without having to work. That’s what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s concerned about possible harm to wildlife, but he decided it wasn’t his priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the way of the Mexican. We see the cash and the present, not the people in front or behind us. Like the government, which thinks only of its purse, and says, countrymen, figure things out on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulevard, Tisdale said she doesn’t blame the residents of Jacumé for accepting the wind farm on their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t have anything, and someone offers you something, it’s hard to say no,” she said. “And we don’t hold that against people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s why she sees it as her responsibility to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10752423/first-u-s-mexico-wind-energy-project-sees-legal-challenge",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10752423"
],
"programs": [
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_19906",
"news_8",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_2403",
"news_18305",
"news_4486",
"news_17286",
"news_17041"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_7054"
],
"featImg": "news_10752436",
"label": "source_news_10752423"
},
"news_10747582": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10747582",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10747582",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1446904803000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1446904803,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "A Fresno Farmer Defies Drought to Sustain Link Between Country and City",
"title": "A Fresno Farmer Defies Drought to Sustain Link Between Country and City",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Collard greens, black-eyed peas and red and green tomatoes fill the table of a small farmstand in central Fresno, enticing urban dwellers out for their Saturday morning coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to purchase this lovely, beautiful bunch of greens,” one customer says. “How much are they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re $3 a pound. Fifteen-year-old Dashon Standifer helps his mom, Porsha, bag the greens. He helped grow these crops, as did his twin brother, Dayvon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231924591\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins also know how to cook with the produce. They’ve got a good recipe for relish and another for homemade pie from tomato stew. It tastes like apple pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it mock pie,” Dayvon says. “We also make our own homemade crust!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg\" alt=\"With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-400x516.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1440x1857.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1180x1522.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-960x1238.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They entered their mock pie and canned relish into cooking and baking contests at the local fair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnofair.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Fresno Fair\u003c/a>. Both entrees won first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers got their gardening and cooking skills through a program called the Freedom School at their \u003ca href=\"http://xyfloyd.wix.com/new-light\">New Light for New Life church\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their mentors was a 75-year-old farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scottfamilyfarms.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Scott Jr.\u003c/a> He’s been teaching farming skills to young African-Americans for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to know how to work the tractor, and grow food,” says Dayvon. “And Will Scott is a good role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s been one for years. Scott helped establish a demonstration farm where kids can get their hands dirty. And he’s introduced hundreds of kids to agriculture in one way or another, either through talks he gives at churches and schools or out on the land, where he teaches farming step by step, row by row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only how to condition the land, but also how to plant and then do maintenance on it,” Scott says. “And then the harvest part of it and [we] also look at the marketing aspect of it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there’s still a negative association with farming that comes from a history of slavery and oppression. Scott’s own grandfather and father were sharecroppers in Oklahoma. He was 5 when they left the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748618\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748618\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg\" alt=\"Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-400x458.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1440x1647.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1180x1350.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-960x1098.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we got off the tab,” Scott says. “You had a tab, you know. You were almost chained to the land. So when you paid your tab off, you’re free to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says agriculture can now mean a job, especially in California’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s farming the land but there are plenty of other related opportunities, he says, like installing drip systems. Or well drilling, he says, looking over his shoulder at his own well. It’s a topic he’s been confronted with lately. Because of the drought, Scott’s well will likely go dry by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to take it deeper so I have access to more water, give me some kind of guarantee and less worry,” he says. But to replace it with a much deeper well could cost around $40,000 and, like most small farmers, Scott doesn’t have that kind of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a predicament many small farmers face, says retired University of California farm adviser Richard Molinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-400x524.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1440x1888.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1180x1547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-960x1259.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have the same resources. They don’t have the same bankroll that the large corporate farms do,” he says. “So they’re, in many cases, living on the edge. Their farm is being held together with shoelaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molinar says Scott has been a voice for African-American farmers. In fact, Scott helped found the Fresno-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AAFCalifornia/\">African-American Farmers of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has devoted at least the last 20 years to not only farming but also to advocate for the black youth and African-American farmers,” Molinar says. “He’s been thinking of other people and not himself, and he is now in some constraints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Scott went into farming full time, he was an engineer for Pacific Bell. Now he spends his days growing mustard greens, turnips, collards, broccoli, lettuce, okra and black-eyed peas. He says small farming is a way of life that is being threatened, especially now with the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small farmers’ way of life is something we must sustain,” Scott says. “This country was built on small farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Floyd Harris, a minister at New Light for New Life Church in Fresno, understands Scott’s plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also a farmer and the founder of the Freedom School, the program the Standifer twins are enrolled in. The Freedom School teaches boys important life skills to help them become well-rounded, healthy men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-400x470.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1440x1691.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1180x1385.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-960x1127.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris says Scott also advised him on a community garden behind the church. “You know he reaches out, not just here in Fresno but he’s down in the Bay Area, he’s down in L.A.,” Harris says. “And so every seed that he plants, I will say, is a seed of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Scott hauls his produce every week to a neighborhood in Oakland, where he says there are plenty of liquor stores but not a lot of fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that when Scott teaches kids what happens when seeds and water mix, it’s inspiring. “And three months later you can go to that same plant that you touched and you dug a hole for, and see that that one plant has 50 tomatoes, or 30 tomatoes green and red,” Harris says. “That’s hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is some hope for Scott. Another farmer, Paul Buxman, has started a campaign to raise money for him. Buxman is known for his tasty \u003ca href=\"http://www.tularecountytreasures.org/sweet-home-ranch-v.html\">Sweet Home Ranch \u003c/a>jams, but he’s also an accomplished impressionistic \u003ca href=\"http://www.shinnphoto.com/Paul-Buxman/\">painter\u003c/a> whose rural scenes of the Central Valley have sold all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says anyone willing to contribute $50 will be given a free lithograph. There are four to choose from, he says. So far, Buxman has raised about $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s help get this farmer some water,” Buxman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s calling his campaign Drill for Will.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10747582 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10747582",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/07/drill-for-will-get-this-farmer-some-water/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1196,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 34
},
"modified": 1446930880,
"excerpt": "Will Scott, a mentor and prominent voice for African-American farmers, faces a drying well, like many small farmers.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Will Scott, a mentor and prominent voice for African-American farmers, faces a drying well, like many small farmers.",
"title": "A Fresno Farmer Defies Drought to Sustain Link Between Country and City | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "A Fresno Farmer Defies Drought to Sustain Link Between Country and City",
"datePublished": "2015-11-07T06:00:03-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-11-07T13:14:40-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "drill-for-will-get-this-farmer-some-water",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10747582/drill-for-will-get-this-farmer-some-water",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Collard greens, black-eyed peas and red and green tomatoes fill the table of a small farmstand in central Fresno, enticing urban dwellers out for their Saturday morning coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to purchase this lovely, beautiful bunch of greens,” one customer says. “How much are they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re $3 a pound. Fifteen-year-old Dashon Standifer helps his mom, Porsha, bag the greens. He helped grow these crops, as did his twin brother, Dayvon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231924591&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231924591'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins also know how to cook with the produce. They’ve got a good recipe for relish and another for homemade pie from tomato stew. It tastes like apple pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it mock pie,” Dayvon says. “We also make our own homemade crust!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg\" alt=\"With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-400x516.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1440x1857.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1180x1522.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-960x1238.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They entered their mock pie and canned relish into cooking and baking contests at the local fair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnofair.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Fresno Fair\u003c/a>. Both entrees won first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers got their gardening and cooking skills through a program called the Freedom School at their \u003ca href=\"http://xyfloyd.wix.com/new-light\">New Light for New Life church\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their mentors was a 75-year-old farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scottfamilyfarms.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Scott Jr.\u003c/a> He’s been teaching farming skills to young African-Americans for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to know how to work the tractor, and grow food,” says Dayvon. “And Will Scott is a good role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s been one for years. Scott helped establish a demonstration farm where kids can get their hands dirty. And he’s introduced hundreds of kids to agriculture in one way or another, either through talks he gives at churches and schools or out on the land, where he teaches farming step by step, row by row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only how to condition the land, but also how to plant and then do maintenance on it,” Scott says. “And then the harvest part of it and [we] also look at the marketing aspect of it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there’s still a negative association with farming that comes from a history of slavery and oppression. Scott’s own grandfather and father were sharecroppers in Oklahoma. He was 5 when they left the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748618\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748618\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg\" alt=\"Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-400x458.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1440x1647.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1180x1350.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-960x1098.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we got off the tab,” Scott says. “You had a tab, you know. You were almost chained to the land. So when you paid your tab off, you’re free to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says agriculture can now mean a job, especially in California’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s farming the land but there are plenty of other related opportunities, he says, like installing drip systems. Or well drilling, he says, looking over his shoulder at his own well. It’s a topic he’s been confronted with lately. Because of the drought, Scott’s well will likely go dry by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to take it deeper so I have access to more water, give me some kind of guarantee and less worry,” he says. But to replace it with a much deeper well could cost around $40,000 and, like most small farmers, Scott doesn’t have that kind of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a predicament many small farmers face, says retired University of California farm adviser Richard Molinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-400x524.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1440x1888.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1180x1547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-960x1259.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have the same resources. They don’t have the same bankroll that the large corporate farms do,” he says. “So they’re, in many cases, living on the edge. Their farm is being held together with shoelaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molinar says Scott has been a voice for African-American farmers. In fact, Scott helped found the Fresno-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AAFCalifornia/\">African-American Farmers of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has devoted at least the last 20 years to not only farming but also to advocate for the black youth and African-American farmers,” Molinar says. “He’s been thinking of other people and not himself, and he is now in some constraints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Scott went into farming full time, he was an engineer for Pacific Bell. Now he spends his days growing mustard greens, turnips, collards, broccoli, lettuce, okra and black-eyed peas. He says small farming is a way of life that is being threatened, especially now with the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small farmers’ way of life is something we must sustain,” Scott says. “This country was built on small farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Floyd Harris, a minister at New Light for New Life Church in Fresno, understands Scott’s plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also a farmer and the founder of the Freedom School, the program the Standifer twins are enrolled in. The Freedom School teaches boys important life skills to help them become well-rounded, healthy men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-400x470.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1440x1691.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1180x1385.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-960x1127.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris says Scott also advised him on a community garden behind the church. “You know he reaches out, not just here in Fresno but he’s down in the Bay Area, he’s down in L.A.,” Harris says. “And so every seed that he plants, I will say, is a seed of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Scott hauls his produce every week to a neighborhood in Oakland, where he says there are plenty of liquor stores but not a lot of fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that when Scott teaches kids what happens when seeds and water mix, it’s inspiring. “And three months later you can go to that same plant that you touched and you dug a hole for, and see that that one plant has 50 tomatoes, or 30 tomatoes green and red,” Harris says. “That’s hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is some hope for Scott. Another farmer, Paul Buxman, has started a campaign to raise money for him. Buxman is known for his tasty \u003ca href=\"http://www.tularecountytreasures.org/sweet-home-ranch-v.html\">Sweet Home Ranch \u003c/a>jams, but he’s also an accomplished impressionistic \u003ca href=\"http://www.shinnphoto.com/Paul-Buxman/\">painter\u003c/a> whose rural scenes of the Central Valley have sold all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says anyone willing to contribute $50 will be given a free lithograph. There are four to choose from, he says. So far, Buxman has raised about $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s help get this farmer some water,” Buxman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s calling his campaign Drill for Will.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10747582/drill-for-will-get-this-farmer-some-water",
"authors": [
"208"
],
"programs": [
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_19906",
"news_457",
"news_8",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_311",
"news_17601",
"news_37",
"news_17286",
"news_17041"
],
"featImg": "news_10748567",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10746188": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10746188",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10746188",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1446797113000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1446797113,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "On Airbnb Rentals, Some California Cities Tax First and Regulate Later",
"title": "On Airbnb Rentals, Some California Cities Tax First and Regulate Later",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/san-francisco-2015-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">defeat\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition F\u003c/a> and its stricter rules on short-term rentals, San Francisco is still legislative light-years ahead of other California cities in regulating rental platforms like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco passed its initial law regulating Airbnb-type rentals more than a year ago. It now has a city office -- a small one, so far -- dedicated to administering and enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precursor to San Francisco's legislative action was an agreement with Airbnb in which the company would collect a hotel tax from guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though few cities in California have attempted to pass and enforce restrictions on short-term rentals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/653/in-what-areas-is-occupancy-tax-collection-and-remittance-by-airbnb-available\" target=\"_blank\">eight cities in the state\u003c/a> have reached an agreement with Airbnb to remit the taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231698816\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tax First, Ask Questions Later?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tax collection agreement has benefits for both cities and operators like Airbnb. Cities get a new stream of revenue, and platforms gain legitimacy by coming to terms with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities should go ahead and make their units subject to the transit occupancy tax right away,\" says Karen Chapple, a professor of urban planning at UC Berkeley. \"Why not take that first move, while we're still figuring out that regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements are not always a precursor to more expansive regulation, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dsJkDW2CH7xicOk57plk0fXUutQfDqfv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Santa Clara is the most recent California city to begin collecting taxes from Airbnb, and officials there say they have no intention of taking on legislation to regulate short-term rentals. When the City Council \u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.santaclaraca.gov/sirepub/cache/2/eq14msd1nepqabvo0spvym1q/7294861105201512165731.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">passed a tax agreement\u003c/a> in September, the chief concern of many members seemed to be whether the deal would go into effect fast enough to collect taxes from renters during the Super Bowl, which the city hosts in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to be proactive in capturing revenue for the Super Bowl,\" City Attorney Richard Nosky told the council in September. \"Our code does not have any use restrictions on rentals ... so we didn't see a need to regulate short-term rentals and kick that rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, short-term rentals have been seen as a direct threat to permanent rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Santa Clara, that's not the case. Many of our homes are occupied by one or two people,\" says Mayor Jamie Matthews. \"This will give people an opportunity to try out what it's like to be able to have part of their home or accessory unit rented. That might lead to additional affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ready use for that new stream of tax revenue would be to offset the loss of affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't set up a regulatory system that is going to cost us a lot of money to implement,\" Chapple says. \"Ideally, what we want to do with this hotel tax revenue coming in is put it into an affordable housing trust fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Cost of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the beachside city of Santa Monica made headlines by enacting a ban on the short-term rental of a full unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation was more straightforward than the rules in San Francisco. By banning all rentals of a full unit and placing no restrictions on hosts renting out a spare bedroom, the city doesn't need to keep track of the number of nights a unit was rented. Under San Francisco's ordinance, full unit rentals are capped at 90 nights a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Santa Monica begins its enforcement effort in earnest, it's finding it needs to devote every penny of the hotel tax in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The money that we are going to collect on the now-legal short-term vacation rentals is only enough to pay for the two code people and staff analyst to do effective enforcement against the illegal ones that were doing us so much damage,\" says Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown. \"So it's probably going to be revenue-neutral for the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been loath to give cities like San Francisco and Santa Monica specific data on rentals that might aid enforcement. A state bill to require the release of that information \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593\" target=\"_blank\">stalled earlier this year in the state Senate. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Holding Off on Tax Agreement \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's largest city is taking a different approach: holding off on a tax agreement while legislation plods through the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10747654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10747654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1180x1447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged the city to move ahead on a tax agreement, but some council members have expressed concern that taking the money now would muddy the waters if the city imposes regulations on short-term rentals later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this would actually put the cart before the horse,\" said City Councilman Mitch Englander at a Budget and Finance Committee meeting over the summer. \"To go forth and say, 'Let's go ahead and look at this revenue' before we've set off a path of having the policy in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city will instead move ahead with committee hearings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/09/29/54719/city-takes-publics-pulse-on-short-term-rentals/\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings\u003c/a> and staff studies before an ordinance moves to the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Airbnb Stays on Message \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, says the leading short-term rental platform is comfortable reaching agreements with cities, like San Diego, in which short-term rentals are not fully legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to pay taxes, we're happy to pay taxes, we want to contribute,\" he says. \"When we can collect and remit, it's a great thing for a city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb may have gotten a bit too excited about its willingness to fill city coffers with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/airbnb-concedes-it-goofed-with-dear-san-francisco-ads\" target=\"_blank\">series of billboards\u003c/a> in San Francisco last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads notified city and county agencies of the things they could be doing with the $12 million in tax money that Airbnb remitted on the behalf of hosts. Not mentioned was the possibility some of the money could be used to fund the Office of Short-Term Rentals, which currently is budgeted for \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/openbooks/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Reports%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27Budget%27%5d&ui.name=20Budget&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=false\" target=\"_blank\">just $475,000\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year and $464,630 for next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ads that threatened to become a snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory marketing blunder didn't move the needle enough for voters to approve Prop. F and its increased restrictions on short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has apologized for the ads, but Lehane says the company will continue to emphasize the message that it is willing to pay its fair share of taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have historically been very consistent about talking about our commitment to paying taxes,\" he said. \"We'll talk about it in the future, and I think we'll certainly talk about it in a smart way that's consistent with how cities want that to be discussed.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10746188 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10746188",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/06/on-airbnb-rentals-some-california-cities-tax-first-and-regulate-later/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1168,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 37
},
"modified": 1446852670,
"excerpt": "Tax agreements give cities new revenue stream, but enforcing regulations proves complex and costly. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Tax agreements give cities new revenue stream, but enforcing regulations proves complex and costly. ",
"title": "On Airbnb Rentals, Some California Cities Tax First and Regulate Later | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "On Airbnb Rentals, Some California Cities Tax First and Regulate Later",
"datePublished": "2015-11-06T00:05:13-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-11-06T15:31:10-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "on-airbnb-rentals-some-california-cities-tax-first-and-regulate-later",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/11/04/california-cities-tax-airbnb-regulation/",
"path": "/news/10746188/on-airbnb-rentals-some-california-cities-tax-first-and-regulate-later",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/san-francisco-2015-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">defeat\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition F\u003c/a> and its stricter rules on short-term rentals, San Francisco is still legislative light-years ahead of other California cities in regulating rental platforms like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco passed its initial law regulating Airbnb-type rentals more than a year ago. It now has a city office -- a small one, so far -- dedicated to administering and enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precursor to San Francisco's legislative action was an agreement with Airbnb in which the company would collect a hotel tax from guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though few cities in California have attempted to pass and enforce restrictions on short-term rentals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/653/in-what-areas-is-occupancy-tax-collection-and-remittance-by-airbnb-available\" target=\"_blank\">eight cities in the state\u003c/a> have reached an agreement with Airbnb to remit the taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231698816&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231698816'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tax First, Ask Questions Later?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tax collection agreement has benefits for both cities and operators like Airbnb. Cities get a new stream of revenue, and platforms gain legitimacy by coming to terms with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities should go ahead and make their units subject to the transit occupancy tax right away,\" says Karen Chapple, a professor of urban planning at UC Berkeley. \"Why not take that first move, while we're still figuring out that regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements are not always a precursor to more expansive regulation, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Santa Clara is the most recent California city to begin collecting taxes from Airbnb, and officials there say they have no intention of taking on legislation to regulate short-term rentals. When the City Council \u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.santaclaraca.gov/sirepub/cache/2/eq14msd1nepqabvo0spvym1q/7294861105201512165731.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">passed a tax agreement\u003c/a> in September, the chief concern of many members seemed to be whether the deal would go into effect fast enough to collect taxes from renters during the Super Bowl, which the city hosts in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to be proactive in capturing revenue for the Super Bowl,\" City Attorney Richard Nosky told the council in September. \"Our code does not have any use restrictions on rentals ... so we didn't see a need to regulate short-term rentals and kick that rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, short-term rentals have been seen as a direct threat to permanent rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Santa Clara, that's not the case. Many of our homes are occupied by one or two people,\" says Mayor Jamie Matthews. \"This will give people an opportunity to try out what it's like to be able to have part of their home or accessory unit rented. That might lead to additional affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ready use for that new stream of tax revenue would be to offset the loss of affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't set up a regulatory system that is going to cost us a lot of money to implement,\" Chapple says. \"Ideally, what we want to do with this hotel tax revenue coming in is put it into an affordable housing trust fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Cost of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the beachside city of Santa Monica made headlines by enacting a ban on the short-term rental of a full unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation was more straightforward than the rules in San Francisco. By banning all rentals of a full unit and placing no restrictions on hosts renting out a spare bedroom, the city doesn't need to keep track of the number of nights a unit was rented. Under San Francisco's ordinance, full unit rentals are capped at 90 nights a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Santa Monica begins its enforcement effort in earnest, it's finding it needs to devote every penny of the hotel tax in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The money that we are going to collect on the now-legal short-term vacation rentals is only enough to pay for the two code people and staff analyst to do effective enforcement against the illegal ones that were doing us so much damage,\" says Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown. \"So it's probably going to be revenue-neutral for the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been loath to give cities like San Francisco and Santa Monica specific data on rentals that might aid enforcement. A state bill to require the release of that information \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593\" target=\"_blank\">stalled earlier this year in the state Senate. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Holding Off on Tax Agreement \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's largest city is taking a different approach: holding off on a tax agreement while legislation plods through the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10747654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10747654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1180x1447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged the city to move ahead on a tax agreement, but some council members have expressed concern that taking the money now would muddy the waters if the city imposes regulations on short-term rentals later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this would actually put the cart before the horse,\" said City Councilman Mitch Englander at a Budget and Finance Committee meeting over the summer. \"To go forth and say, 'Let's go ahead and look at this revenue' before we've set off a path of having the policy in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city will instead move ahead with committee hearings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/09/29/54719/city-takes-publics-pulse-on-short-term-rentals/\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings\u003c/a> and staff studies before an ordinance moves to the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Airbnb Stays on Message \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, says the leading short-term rental platform is comfortable reaching agreements with cities, like San Diego, in which short-term rentals are not fully legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to pay taxes, we're happy to pay taxes, we want to contribute,\" he says. \"When we can collect and remit, it's a great thing for a city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb may have gotten a bit too excited about its willingness to fill city coffers with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/airbnb-concedes-it-goofed-with-dear-san-francisco-ads\" target=\"_blank\">series of billboards\u003c/a> in San Francisco last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads notified city and county agencies of the things they could be doing with the $12 million in tax money that Airbnb remitted on the behalf of hosts. Not mentioned was the possibility some of the money could be used to fund the Office of Short-Term Rentals, which currently is budgeted for \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/openbooks/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Reports%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27Budget%27%5d&ui.name=20Budget&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=false\" target=\"_blank\">just $475,000\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year and $464,630 for next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ads that threatened to become a snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory marketing blunder didn't move the needle enough for voters to approve Prop. F and its increased restrictions on short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has apologized for the ads, but Lehane says the company will continue to emphasize the message that it is willing to pay its fair share of taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have historically been very consistent about talking about our commitment to paying taxes,\" he said. \"We'll talk about it in the future, and I think we'll certainly talk about it in a smart way that's consistent with how cities want that to be discussed.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10746188/on-airbnb-rentals-some-california-cities-tax-first-and-regulate-later",
"authors": [
"227"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_6266",
"news_13"
],
"tags": [
"news_1735",
"news_18538",
"news_4",
"news_38",
"news_18226",
"news_17286",
"news_17041"
],
"featImg": "news_10747588",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10728938": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10728938",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10728938",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1446739214000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1446739214,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Bay Area Eateries Forge Ahead With 'No Tip' Experiment",
"title": "Bay Area Eateries Forge Ahead With 'No Tip' Experiment",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Andrew Hoffman wants to end tipping as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman is co-owner of Comal, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Berkeley. About a year ago, he followed in the footsteps of other local restaurants and replaced tips with a 20 percent service charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think tipping is an unhealthy practice,” Hoffman says. “I would be in favor of anything that got restaurants out of that model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been a lot of criticism in recent years about the tip system. One of the biggest complaints is that it allows for discrimination. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tippingresearch.com/uploads/customer_racial_discrimination10-30-06.pdf\">Studies\u003c/a> have shown, for example, that black waiters \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/racism-black-restaurant-waiters-service-industry-servers-get-smaller-tips-90121\">make less\u003c/a> than white waiters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman and other no-tip restaurant owners argue that the tipping model creates bad dynamics in a restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman says you get mercenary servers -- waiters gunning for their own tips instead of working together. And because tips go to the service staff, they often end up making far more money than the kitchen staff or even managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If servers are making the most money in the building, something is wrong with the current restaurant compensation model.'\u003ccite>Andrew Hoffman\u003cbr>Comal co-owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hoffman says, “If servers are making the most money in the building, something is wrong with the current restaurant compensation model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman has faulted the tip system for years. But what compelled him to finally ditch it wasn't any of the reasons above. Instead he says, it was the rising minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/berkeley-council-puts-off-vote-on-19-minimum-wage\"> voted to increase its minimum wage\u003c/a> to $12.53 by October 2016, and there has been talk of continuing to raise it in the coming years. That means restaurants will need to pay everyone more, including waiters. Hoffman says the service charge helps him balance out pay because, unlike with tips, he can divide it among the whole staff. He expects more restaurants will adopt this model to cover the labor costs of a higher minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing tips with a service charge may sound good if you are working in the kitchen, but it's a scary proposition for career waitstaff like Kim Schooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schooling has waited tables for 20 years at different places around the Bay Area. She worries that, with the new model, waiters will make less and less, until they can no longer earn a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schooling says, “We have no idea what our income could potentially look like if this shift takes place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty comes from the one big difference between a tip and a service charge. By law, tips go straight to the waitstaff. That is because restaurants have a history of stealing them. But with a service charge, owners get the money and can do whatever they want with it. Schooling feels like restaurateurs are using the rising minimum wage as an excuse to get their hands on tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have no idea what our income could potentially look like if this shift takes place.'\u003ccite>Kim Schooling\u003cbr>Waiter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It seems oddly opportunistic,” Schooling says. “Like oh, our back is up against the wall with the wage increases, so we will use this income and we'll dress it up in this pretty dress called fairness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The no-tip movement is growing in the Bay Area and in \u003ca href=\"http://www.eater.com/2015/10/14/9532729/danny-meyer-drops-tipping-chefs-restaurateurs-reactions\"> major cities like New York\u003c/a>. Many are also citing minimum wage increases as the main motivating factor. But for some local restaurants, the experiment has backfired so badly they have had to reinstate tipping. Owners of Bar Agricole in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2015/10/14/bar-agricole-and-trou-normand-nix-tipless-models/#photo-698141\">reportedly brought tips back\u003c/a> to keep staff from quitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedric Pieretti thought he would have to quit when his restaurant went no-tip. He is a bartender at Comal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was that I was going to have to find a new job,” Pieretti says. “I thought I wasn't going to make as much money.” But Pieretti has since changed his mind, and is now an advocate for the service charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieretti says he likes the stability and that his compensation is determined by his boss, not customers. He also says he feels like a service charge legitimizes his career as a bartender. But a big part of the reason the service charge works, Pieretti says, is because the owners at Comal are so good to work for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, the owners promised no one on staff would take a pay cut. They're covering the extra payroll cost themselves. Also, the owners are way more transparent about finances than at most restaurants. They share a spreadsheet with the whole staff that shows exactly what the restaurant makes and where that service charge goes on any given night. Pieretti says he can see that the restaurant isn't pocketing any money that should go to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can look at the net sales of the restaurants for the night,” Pieretti says. \"Which this to me is the most important number. That's the one that always gets hidden from employees. How much did they make and how much of that money do you get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieretti prefers the no-tip model as long as service job wages don't take a big drop. If they did, he says, he'd have to find another line of work. That might not be easy, since Pieretti has been a bartender all his working life.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10728938 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10728938",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/05/experimenting-with-eliminating-restaurant-tips/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 905,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 23
},
"modified": 1446740034,
"excerpt": "Faced with minimum wage hikes, some restaurateurs have replaced tipping with service charges. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Faced with minimum wage hikes, some restaurateurs have replaced tipping with service charges. ",
"title": "Bay Area Eateries Forge Ahead With 'No Tip' Experiment | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Bay Area Eateries Forge Ahead With 'No Tip' Experiment",
"datePublished": "2015-11-05T08:00:14-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-11-05T08:13:54-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "experimenting-with-eliminating-restaurant-tips",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/11/05/no-tip-restaurants-bay-area/",
"source": "No-tip",
"path": "/news/10728938/experimenting-with-eliminating-restaurant-tips",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Andrew Hoffman wants to end tipping as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman is co-owner of Comal, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Berkeley. About a year ago, he followed in the footsteps of other local restaurants and replaced tips with a 20 percent service charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think tipping is an unhealthy practice,” Hoffman says. “I would be in favor of anything that got restaurants out of that model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been a lot of criticism in recent years about the tip system. One of the biggest complaints is that it allows for discrimination. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tippingresearch.com/uploads/customer_racial_discrimination10-30-06.pdf\">Studies\u003c/a> have shown, for example, that black waiters \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/racism-black-restaurant-waiters-service-industry-servers-get-smaller-tips-90121\">make less\u003c/a> than white waiters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman and other no-tip restaurant owners argue that the tipping model creates bad dynamics in a restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman says you get mercenary servers -- waiters gunning for their own tips instead of working together. And because tips go to the service staff, they often end up making far more money than the kitchen staff or even managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If servers are making the most money in the building, something is wrong with the current restaurant compensation model.'\u003ccite>Andrew Hoffman\u003cbr>Comal co-owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hoffman says, “If servers are making the most money in the building, something is wrong with the current restaurant compensation model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman has faulted the tip system for years. But what compelled him to finally ditch it wasn't any of the reasons above. Instead he says, it was the rising minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/berkeley-council-puts-off-vote-on-19-minimum-wage\"> voted to increase its minimum wage\u003c/a> to $12.53 by October 2016, and there has been talk of continuing to raise it in the coming years. That means restaurants will need to pay everyone more, including waiters. Hoffman says the service charge helps him balance out pay because, unlike with tips, he can divide it among the whole staff. He expects more restaurants will adopt this model to cover the labor costs of a higher minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing tips with a service charge may sound good if you are working in the kitchen, but it's a scary proposition for career waitstaff like Kim Schooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schooling has waited tables for 20 years at different places around the Bay Area. She worries that, with the new model, waiters will make less and less, until they can no longer earn a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schooling says, “We have no idea what our income could potentially look like if this shift takes place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty comes from the one big difference between a tip and a service charge. By law, tips go straight to the waitstaff. That is because restaurants have a history of stealing them. But with a service charge, owners get the money and can do whatever they want with it. Schooling feels like restaurateurs are using the rising minimum wage as an excuse to get their hands on tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have no idea what our income could potentially look like if this shift takes place.'\u003ccite>Kim Schooling\u003cbr>Waiter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It seems oddly opportunistic,” Schooling says. “Like oh, our back is up against the wall with the wage increases, so we will use this income and we'll dress it up in this pretty dress called fairness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The no-tip movement is growing in the Bay Area and in \u003ca href=\"http://www.eater.com/2015/10/14/9532729/danny-meyer-drops-tipping-chefs-restaurateurs-reactions\"> major cities like New York\u003c/a>. Many are also citing minimum wage increases as the main motivating factor. But for some local restaurants, the experiment has backfired so badly they have had to reinstate tipping. Owners of Bar Agricole in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2015/10/14/bar-agricole-and-trou-normand-nix-tipless-models/#photo-698141\">reportedly brought tips back\u003c/a> to keep staff from quitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedric Pieretti thought he would have to quit when his restaurant went no-tip. He is a bartender at Comal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was that I was going to have to find a new job,” Pieretti says. “I thought I wasn't going to make as much money.” But Pieretti has since changed his mind, and is now an advocate for the service charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieretti says he likes the stability and that his compensation is determined by his boss, not customers. He also says he feels like a service charge legitimizes his career as a bartender. But a big part of the reason the service charge works, Pieretti says, is because the owners at Comal are so good to work for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, the owners promised no one on staff would take a pay cut. They're covering the extra payroll cost themselves. Also, the owners are way more transparent about finances than at most restaurants. They share a spreadsheet with the whole staff that shows exactly what the restaurant makes and where that service charge goes on any given night. Pieretti says he can see that the restaurant isn't pocketing any money that should go to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can look at the net sales of the restaurants for the night,” Pieretti says. \"Which this to me is the most important number. That's the one that always gets hidden from employees. How much did they make and how much of that money do you get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieretti prefers the no-tip model as long as service job wages don't take a big drop. If they did, he says, he'd have to find another line of work. That might not be easy, since Pieretti has been a bartender all his working life.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10728938/experimenting-with-eliminating-restaurant-tips",
"authors": [
"253"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758"
],
"tags": [
"news_333",
"news_2141"
],
"featImg": "news_10728941",
"label": "source_news_10728938"
},
"news_10500291": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10500291",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10500291",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1445878841000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1445878841,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "S.F. Could Be Much Whiter in 25 Years, While the Rest of Region Gets More Diverse",
"title": "S.F. Could Be Much Whiter in 25 Years, While the Rest of Region Gets More Diverse",
"headTitle": "So Well Spoken | News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Sarah Treuhaft has lived in San Francisco's Mission District since 2001. She's seen the transformation of her neighborhood and the city as a whole. But by 2040, it's likely to change a whole lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she says, the notion of the city as a diverse and inclusive place might simply be a \"mirage\" by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being a resident of San Francisco and thinking of it as a progressive bastion -- the data really flies in the face of that,\" says Treuhaft, director of equitable growth initiatives at PolicyLink, a national social equity organization with an office in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data can be found in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/documents/bay-area-profile/BayAreaProfile_21April2015_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/about\" target=\"_blank\">PolicyLink\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/\" target=\"_blank\">PERE\u003c/a> (the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California), which came out earlier this year. One of its main conclusions is sobering: \"While the Bay Area economy is booming, rising inequality, stagnant wages and persistent racial inequities place its long-term economic future at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Change in city population 'is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up.'\u003ccite>Sarah Treuhaft,\u003cbr>\nPolicyLink\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By 2040, San Francisco County is projected to have a non-Hispanic white majority -- jumping from 42 percent in 2013 to 52 percent in 25 years. The percentage of Asians is expected to fall from 34 percent to 28 percent. The Latino population is forecast to shrink from 15 percent to 12 percent. The city's dwindling number of African-Americans, currently down to 6 percent, should remain the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the only one of the five central Bay Area counties where ethnic and racial diversity will actually decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up,\" says Treuhaft. These parallel trends, with the tech boom as a backdrop, translate into an exodus of families and lower-income and working-class people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that the percentage of young people in San Francisco who are white jumped to 33 percent in 2014, compared with 22 percent in 1990 -- an unusual trend in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10500958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-04-23 20.20.29\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-400x293.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png 917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is just the latest piece of evidence chronicling the huge shifts in San Francisco and the five-county Bay Area, which ranks second in diversity nationwide, trailing only the Vallejo-Fairfield area. Titled \"An Equity Profile of the San Francisco Bay Area Region,\" the report offers a demographic portrait over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 1980, the region did not have a single county that was majority people of color, and San Francisco County had the highest percentage people of color. Now, all counties except for Marin are majority people of color. By 2040, the percentage people of color is projected to decline in San Francisco while it continues to rise in Marin. In 2040, seven in every 10 San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa County residents are expected to be people of color.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I was surprised and disappointed to see that divergence with San Francisco,\" Treuhaft says. \"I was also surprised to see the extent of racial and gender inequities by wages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, which was prepared for the San Francisco Foundation, draws on data from public and private sources, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau\u003c/a> and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There has been dramatic growth and change in the Bay Area in the past 35 years, with people of color increasing from 34 percent to 58 percent of the population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A large racial generation gap exists between the region's mainly white senior citizens and increasingly diverse young population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Bay Area has grown from 3.3 million to 4.3 million residents since 1980, with people of color contributing 97 percent of the growth in the 1980s and all the growth in the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immigration played a bigger role in the increase of the region's Asian population -- 52 percent from foreign-born residents -- than its Latino population, of which only 26 percent were not born in the United States.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By 2040, 69 percent of Bay Area residents are projected to be people of color, making the region No. 19 among the 150 largest metros for share of the nonwhite population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>College-educated women of color with a bachelor's degree or higher earn $14 an hour less than their white male counterparts.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Income inequality has risen dramatically all over the Bay Area in the last few decades -- more so than the United States as a whole -- to the point where it's now 14th among the country's 150 largest metro regions, up from 45th position in 1979. The wages of the highest-paid workers have increased significantly, while those of the lowest-paid workers have declined, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the unemployment rate is much higher for people of color, and more than one in four people without jobs live in neighborhoods where at least 82 percent of residents are nonwhite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that the percentage of Bay Area households with middle-class incomes has shrunk since 1979 -- from 40 to 36 percent -- but they've become more racially and ethnically diverse. About one in every nine Bay Area residents lives below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, high-wage workers have flourished: Incomes have more than doubled for those with jobs in professional and technical services and finance, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as being prepared for the future, the Bay Area will be facing a skills gap unless education levels increase, according to the study: \"By 2020, 43 percent of the state's jobs will require an associate degree or above. Only 38 percent of U.S.-born Latinos, 35 percent of blacks, 31 percent of Native Americans and 14 percent of Latino immigrants have that level of education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other tidbits from the report: The Bay Area is less dependent on cars than almost anywhere else in the country. Poverty has increased faster in the suburbs. Segregation is steadily decreasing. And half of Bay Area renters spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people like Treuhaft, the flood of data takes on personal meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, who live near 24th Street in the Mission with their 2-year-old son, had hoped to buy a house in the neighborhood. But at this point they know that's simply delusional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen housing prices increase beyond our means,\" says Treuhaft, who grew up in Ohio. \"If my family was evicted now, we couldn't even afford to rent in the Mission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's dismayed by the study's predictions for what San Francisco will become. But they are, after all, only projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Losing our diversity is a serious risk in the long run,\" Treuhaft says. \"But it's not hopeless. We can change this trajectory through strong leadership and different policies. And immigration will play a big role. There's a lot San Francisco could do now to ensure that its current diverse population continues to live and thrive.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10500291 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10500291",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/26/san-francisco-could-be-a-lot-whiter-in-25-years-predicts-a-new-profile-of-bay-area/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1178,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 27
},
"modified": 1445898777,
"excerpt": "It's the only one of the five central Bay Area counties in which diversity is likely to decrease.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "It's the only one of the five central Bay Area counties in which diversity is likely to decrease.",
"title": "S.F. Could Be Much Whiter in 25 Years, While the Rest of Region Gets More Diverse | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "S.F. Could Be Much Whiter in 25 Years, While the Rest of Region Gets More Diverse",
"datePublished": "2015-10-26T10:00:41-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-10-26T15:32:57-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "san-francisco-could-be-a-lot-whiter-in-25-years-predicts-a-new-profile-of-bay-area",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/04/24/san-francisco-could-be-a-lot-whiter-in-25-years-predicts-a-new-profile-of-bay-area/",
"path": "/news/10500291/san-francisco-could-be-a-lot-whiter-in-25-years-predicts-a-new-profile-of-bay-area",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sarah Treuhaft has lived in San Francisco's Mission District since 2001. She's seen the transformation of her neighborhood and the city as a whole. But by 2040, it's likely to change a whole lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she says, the notion of the city as a diverse and inclusive place might simply be a \"mirage\" by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being a resident of San Francisco and thinking of it as a progressive bastion -- the data really flies in the face of that,\" says Treuhaft, director of equitable growth initiatives at PolicyLink, a national social equity organization with an office in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data can be found in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/documents/bay-area-profile/BayAreaProfile_21April2015_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/about\" target=\"_blank\">PolicyLink\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/\" target=\"_blank\">PERE\u003c/a> (the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California), which came out earlier this year. One of its main conclusions is sobering: \"While the Bay Area economy is booming, rising inequality, stagnant wages and persistent racial inequities place its long-term economic future at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Change in city population 'is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up.'\u003ccite>Sarah Treuhaft,\u003cbr>\nPolicyLink\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By 2040, San Francisco County is projected to have a non-Hispanic white majority -- jumping from 42 percent in 2013 to 52 percent in 25 years. The percentage of Asians is expected to fall from 34 percent to 28 percent. The Latino population is forecast to shrink from 15 percent to 12 percent. The city's dwindling number of African-Americans, currently down to 6 percent, should remain the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the only one of the five central Bay Area counties where ethnic and racial diversity will actually decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a story about gentrification and rising housing costs and wages not keeping up,\" says Treuhaft. These parallel trends, with the tech boom as a backdrop, translate into an exodus of families and lower-income and working-class people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds that the percentage of young people in San Francisco who are white jumped to 33 percent in 2014, compared with 22 percent in 1990 -- an unusual trend in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10500958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-04-23 20.20.29\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-800x585.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29-400x293.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Screenshot-2015-04-23-20.20.29.png 917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is just the latest piece of evidence chronicling the huge shifts in San Francisco and the five-county Bay Area, which ranks second in diversity nationwide, trailing only the Vallejo-Fairfield area. Titled \"An Equity Profile of the San Francisco Bay Area Region,\" the report offers a demographic portrait over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 1980, the region did not have a single county that was majority people of color, and San Francisco County had the highest percentage people of color. Now, all counties except for Marin are majority people of color. By 2040, the percentage people of color is projected to decline in San Francisco while it continues to rise in Marin. In 2040, seven in every 10 San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa County residents are expected to be people of color.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"I was surprised and disappointed to see that divergence with San Francisco,\" Treuhaft says. \"I was also surprised to see the extent of racial and gender inequities by wages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, which was prepared for the San Francisco Foundation, draws on data from public and private sources, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau\u003c/a> and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There has been dramatic growth and change in the Bay Area in the past 35 years, with people of color increasing from 34 percent to 58 percent of the population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A large racial generation gap exists between the region's mainly white senior citizens and increasingly diverse young population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Bay Area has grown from 3.3 million to 4.3 million residents since 1980, with people of color contributing 97 percent of the growth in the 1980s and all the growth in the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immigration played a bigger role in the increase of the region's Asian population -- 52 percent from foreign-born residents -- than its Latino population, of which only 26 percent were not born in the United States.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By 2040, 69 percent of Bay Area residents are projected to be people of color, making the region No. 19 among the 150 largest metros for share of the nonwhite population.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>College-educated women of color with a bachelor's degree or higher earn $14 an hour less than their white male counterparts.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Income inequality has risen dramatically all over the Bay Area in the last few decades -- more so than the United States as a whole -- to the point where it's now 14th among the country's 150 largest metro regions, up from 45th position in 1979. The wages of the highest-paid workers have increased significantly, while those of the lowest-paid workers have declined, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the unemployment rate is much higher for people of color, and more than one in four people without jobs live in neighborhoods where at least 82 percent of residents are nonwhite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that the percentage of Bay Area households with middle-class incomes has shrunk since 1979 -- from 40 to 36 percent -- but they've become more racially and ethnically diverse. About one in every nine Bay Area residents lives below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, high-wage workers have flourished: Incomes have more than doubled for those with jobs in professional and technical services and finance, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as being prepared for the future, the Bay Area will be facing a skills gap unless education levels increase, according to the study: \"By 2020, 43 percent of the state's jobs will require an associate degree or above. Only 38 percent of U.S.-born Latinos, 35 percent of blacks, 31 percent of Native Americans and 14 percent of Latino immigrants have that level of education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other tidbits from the report: The Bay Area is less dependent on cars than almost anywhere else in the country. Poverty has increased faster in the suburbs. Segregation is steadily decreasing. And half of Bay Area renters spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people like Treuhaft, the flood of data takes on personal meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, who live near 24th Street in the Mission with their 2-year-old son, had hoped to buy a house in the neighborhood. But at this point they know that's simply delusional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen housing prices increase beyond our means,\" says Treuhaft, who grew up in Ohio. \"If my family was evicted now, we couldn't even afford to rent in the Mission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's dismayed by the study's predictions for what San Francisco will become. But they are, after all, only projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Losing our diversity is a serious risk in the long run,\" Treuhaft says. \"But it's not hopeless. We can change this trajectory through strong leadership and different policies. And immigration will play a big role. There's a lot San Francisco could do now to ensure that its current diverse population continues to live and thrive.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10500291/san-francisco-could-be-a-lot-whiter-in-25-years-predicts-a-new-profile-of-bay-area",
"authors": [
"247"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"series": [
"news_17411",
"news_18583"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758"
],
"tags": [
"news_17687",
"news_38"
],
"featImg": "news_10500474",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10728800": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10728800",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10728800",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1445605226000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1445605226,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "North Fair Oaks Road Redesign Sparks Gentrification Fears",
"title": "North Fair Oaks Road Redesign Sparks Gentrification Fears",
"headTitle": "Boomtown | News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>A plan to redesign the stretch of Middlefield Road that runs through the working-class neighborhood of North Fair Oaks, just south of Redwood City, has residents torn between wanting a safer, more inviting main thoroughfare, and being concerned that upgrades will lead to gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, cars speed along Middlefield’s four traffic lanes, while pedestrians crowd on narrow sidewalks and cyclists risk being struck by cars backing out of diagonal parking spaces. Last October, the County of San Mateo approved a $12.5 million revamp of Middlefield between Pacific and Fifth Avenues, making the street the \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/north-fair-oaks-road-project/\" target=\"_blank\">centerpiece of its renewed focus\u003c/a> on this unincorporated area. The plan will cut the road to three traffic lanes, switch from diagonal to parallel parking, and use the extra space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks and public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as housing costs skyrocket in surrounding cities, community support for the project has become mixed with fear. Residents and business owners worry that a spruced-up Middlefield may attract affluent newcomers and push up prices in one of the last affordable pockets in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10728866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10728866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1440x863.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-960x575.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks. \u003ccite>(Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d be really sorry to see the community driven out, and our nice little working street that’s always been really useful turn into some kind of chichi, boutiquey area,” said Penny Durham, a 36-year resident of North Fair Oaks. “There’s been historically sort of benign neglect. Now there’s so much pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar projects to swap traffic lanes for bike paths and broad sidewalks are increasingly common around the Bay Area. Often known as “complete streets” or “road diets,” these redesigns can reduce traffic injuries, encourage healthier and more sustainable commutes, and spark activity on street corners and in local shops. Yet on the Peninsula, these projects have typically been in wealthy neighborhoods and downtown business districts, such as California Avenue in Palo Alto or Lincoln Avenue in San Jose’s Willow Glen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks doesn’t fit this mold. Tucked between the mansions of Atherton and booming Redwood City, the neighborhood’s median household income was just $60,000 in 2013, and 73 percent of residents are Latino. Instead of being lined with upscale restaurants, this stretch of Middlefield is home to auto repair shops and beauty salons, the signs outside a blend of English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help adapt the complete street concept to North Fair Oaks, the county has engaged community members throughout the project. It launched an outreach initiative called North Fair Oaks Forward, and selected the three-lane, parallel-parking concept through a series of collaborative neighborhood meetings. Now, the project team is hosting workshops where community members can shape the details of the new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229363665\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials acknowledge risks of gentrification, but say they are taking a similarly collaborative approach to developing protections for existing residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will form a gentrification group and we will talk about this,” said Deputy County Manager Mike Callagy at the first design workshop on Sept. 30. “I promise you these issues are really important to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all residents are convinced, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just hard to know who to trust,” said Armando Garcia, a resident and business owner. “I wouldn’t mind having a nice street, but I feel like it’s going to snowball into something bigger than that eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond policy protections, thoughtful design can also help check gentrification, said landscape architect Steve Rasmussen Cancian. A bilingual former community organizer, Cancian was brought in by the county to facilitate design workshops and help translate neighborhood feedback into specific plans. He described how the project could enhance the street for existing residents, but in ways that have limited appeal to outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than putting one bench next to a bus stop, you put two benches facing each other under some trees,\" he said. \"And you don’t put them in front of a cafe where they become an extension of the cafe, you put them in front of an auto parts store.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to successful projects in other cities, Cancian said that with thoughtful choices and extensive community input, Middlefield can be redesigned in a way that avoids displacement. “It is possible to have both the best quality, the full diversity of services and affordability, but it’s not going to happen without an extraordinary level of effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will host additional planning meetings through the end of the year, then will draw up detailed plans during 2016 and 2017. Construction is projected to begin in late 2017.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10728800 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10728800",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/23/north-fair-oaks-road-redesign-sparks-gentrification-fears/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 830,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 18
},
"modified": 1445562553,
"excerpt": "Plan to redesign stretch of Middlefield Road has residents torn between wanting an improved main thoroughfare, and worried that upgrades will lead to gentrification.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Plan to redesign stretch of Middlefield Road has residents torn between wanting an improved main thoroughfare, and worried that upgrades will lead to gentrification.",
"title": "North Fair Oaks Road Redesign Sparks Gentrification Fears | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "North Fair Oaks Road Redesign Sparks Gentrification Fears",
"datePublished": "2015-10-23T06:00:26-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-10-22T18:09:13-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "north-fair-oaks-road-redesign-sparks-gentrification-fears",
"status": "publish",
"sourceUrl": "http://peninsulapress.com/2015/10/20/north-fair-oaks-road-redesign-gentrification-fears/",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/author/jeffbarrera/\">Jeff Barrera\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>",
"source": "Peninsula Press",
"path": "/news/10728800/north-fair-oaks-road-redesign-sparks-gentrification-fears",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A plan to redesign the stretch of Middlefield Road that runs through the working-class neighborhood of North Fair Oaks, just south of Redwood City, has residents torn between wanting a safer, more inviting main thoroughfare, and being concerned that upgrades will lead to gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, cars speed along Middlefield’s four traffic lanes, while pedestrians crowd on narrow sidewalks and cyclists risk being struck by cars backing out of diagonal parking spaces. Last October, the County of San Mateo approved a $12.5 million revamp of Middlefield between Pacific and Fifth Avenues, making the street the \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/north-fair-oaks-road-project/\" target=\"_blank\">centerpiece of its renewed focus\u003c/a> on this unincorporated area. The plan will cut the road to three traffic lanes, switch from diagonal to parallel parking, and use the extra space for bike lanes, wider sidewalks and public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as housing costs skyrocket in surrounding cities, community support for the project has become mixed with fear. Residents and business owners worry that a spruced-up Middlefield may attract affluent newcomers and push up prices in one of the last affordable pockets in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10728866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10728866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1440x863.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MiddlefieldShops-960x575.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorful storefronts line parts of Middlefield Road, in North Fair Oaks. \u003ccite>(Allison McCartney/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d be really sorry to see the community driven out, and our nice little working street that’s always been really useful turn into some kind of chichi, boutiquey area,” said Penny Durham, a 36-year resident of North Fair Oaks. “There’s been historically sort of benign neglect. Now there’s so much pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar projects to swap traffic lanes for bike paths and broad sidewalks are increasingly common around the Bay Area. Often known as “complete streets” or “road diets,” these redesigns can reduce traffic injuries, encourage healthier and more sustainable commutes, and spark activity on street corners and in local shops. Yet on the Peninsula, these projects have typically been in wealthy neighborhoods and downtown business districts, such as California Avenue in Palo Alto or Lincoln Avenue in San Jose’s Willow Glen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Fair Oaks doesn’t fit this mold. Tucked between the mansions of Atherton and booming Redwood City, the neighborhood’s median household income was just $60,000 in 2013, and 73 percent of residents are Latino. Instead of being lined with upscale restaurants, this stretch of Middlefield is home to auto repair shops and beauty salons, the signs outside a blend of English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help adapt the complete street concept to North Fair Oaks, the county has engaged community members throughout the project. It launched an outreach initiative called North Fair Oaks Forward, and selected the three-lane, parallel-parking concept through a series of collaborative neighborhood meetings. Now, the project team is hosting workshops where community members can shape the details of the new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229363665&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229363665'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials acknowledge risks of gentrification, but say they are taking a similarly collaborative approach to developing protections for existing residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will form a gentrification group and we will talk about this,” said Deputy County Manager Mike Callagy at the first design workshop on Sept. 30. “I promise you these issues are really important to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all residents are convinced, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just hard to know who to trust,” said Armando Garcia, a resident and business owner. “I wouldn’t mind having a nice street, but I feel like it’s going to snowball into something bigger than that eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond policy protections, thoughtful design can also help check gentrification, said landscape architect Steve Rasmussen Cancian. A bilingual former community organizer, Cancian was brought in by the county to facilitate design workshops and help translate neighborhood feedback into specific plans. He described how the project could enhance the street for existing residents, but in ways that have limited appeal to outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than putting one bench next to a bus stop, you put two benches facing each other under some trees,\" he said. \"And you don’t put them in front of a cafe where they become an extension of the cafe, you put them in front of an auto parts store.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to successful projects in other cities, Cancian said that with thoughtful choices and extensive community input, Middlefield can be redesigned in a way that avoids displacement. “It is possible to have both the best quality, the full diversity of services and affordability, but it’s not going to happen without an extraordinary level of effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will host additional planning meetings through the end of the year, then will draw up detailed plans during 2016 and 2017. Construction is projected to begin in late 2017.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10728800/north-fair-oaks-road-redesign-sparks-gentrification-fears",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10728800"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"series": [
"news_17411"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_6266",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_4613",
"news_551"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_5933"
],
"featImg": "news_10728803",
"label": "source_news_10728800"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026PresidentialReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=economy": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 1716,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 2545,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_10778135",
"news_10777885",
"news_10776833",
"news_10769449",
"news_10766031",
"news_10761651",
"news_10752423",
"news_10747582",
"news_10746188",
"news_10728938",
"news_10500291",
"news_10728800"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_economy": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_1758": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1758",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1758",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Economy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Full coverage of the economy",
"title": "Economy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2648,
"slug": "economy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/economy"
},
"source_news_10752423": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_10752423",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "KPBS",
"link": "http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/13/first-us-mexico-wind-farm-sees-legal-challenge/",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_news_10728938": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_10728938",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "No-tip",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_news_10728800": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_10728800",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Peninsula Press",
"link": "http://peninsulapress.com/2015/10/20/north-fair-oaks-road-redesign-gentrification-fears/",
"isLoading": false
},
"news_72": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_72",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "72",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TCR-2-Logo-Web-Banners-03.png",
"name": "The California Report",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6969,
"slug": "the-california-report",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/the-california-report"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_4": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "los angeles",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "los angeles Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4,
"slug": "los-angeles",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/los-angeles"
},
"news_3167": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3167",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3167",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "manufacturing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "manufacturing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3185,
"slug": "manufacturing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/manufacturing"
},
"news_17286": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17286",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17286",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "tcr",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "tcr Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17318,
"slug": "tcr",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/tcr"
},
"news_253": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_253",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "253",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "NPR",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "KQED is the NPR station for the Bay Area, providing award-winning news, programming, and community engagement.",
"title": "NPR Archives - Get the Latest News and Reports from California | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7083,
"slug": "npr",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/npr"
},
"news_5096": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5096",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5096",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "income inequality",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "income inequality Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5117,
"slug": "income-inequality",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/income-inequality"
},
"news_19904": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19904",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19904",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Labor",
"slug": "labor",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Labor | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 19921,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/labor"
},
"news_2141": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2141",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2141",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "minimum wage",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "minimum wage Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2156,
"slug": "minimum-wage",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/minimum-wage"
},
"news_17041": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17041",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17041",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "the-california-report-featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "the-california-report-featured Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17067,
"slug": "the-california-report-featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/the-california-report-featured"
},
"news_18481": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18481",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18481",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "CALmatters",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "CALmatters Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18515,
"slug": "calmatters",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/calmatters"
},
"news_248": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/technology"
},
"news_7051": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_7051",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "7051",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Faultlines-2.png",
"name": "FaultLines",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "FaultLines Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7077,
"slug": "faultlines",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/faultlines"
},
"news_6944": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6944",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6944",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/News-Fix-Logo-Web-Banners-04.png",
"name": "News Fix",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "The News Fix is a daily news podcast from KQED that breaks down the latest headlines and provides in-depth analysis of the stories that matter to the Bay Area.",
"title": "News Fix - Daily Dose of Bay Area News | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6968,
"slug": "news-fix",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/news-fix"
},
"news_19101": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19101",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19101",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/election2016_hor.png",
"name": "Election 2016",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Election 2016 Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19118,
"slug": "election-2016",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/election-2016"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_13": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_13",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "13",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 13,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/politics"
},
"news_16": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_16",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "16",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gavin Newsom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gavin Newsom Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16,
"slug": "gavin-newsom",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gavin-newsom"
},
"news_2795": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2795",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2795",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "gun control",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "gun control Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2813,
"slug": "gun-control",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gun-control"
},
"news_102": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_102",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "102",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "marijuana",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "marijuana Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 106,
"slug": "marijuana",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/marijuana"
},
"news_18786": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18786",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18786",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Jack Dorsey",
"slug": "jack-dorsey",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Jack Dorsey | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 18803,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/jack-dorsey"
},
"news_19491": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19491",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19491",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png",
"name": "SF Homeless Project",
"description": "Thousands of people are homeless in San Francisco, and even more throughout the Bay Area. Despite years of concern and millions of dollars of investment, the problem persists.\r\n\r\nWho are the people who live on the streets and on the edge of homelessness? Why have we failed to create lasting change? And are there solutions that offer hope for the future? \u003cstrong>As part of a collaboration with dozens of Bay Area news organizations, KQED is exploring these questions, and more.\u003c/strong>",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "KQED's SF Homeless Project is an in-depth look at homelessness in SF. We explore the causes, the challenges, and the efforts being made to address this crisis.",
"title": "SF Homeless Project: Diving into Homelessness in SF | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19508,
"slug": "sf-homeless-project",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/sf-homeless-project"
},
"news_6266": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6266",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6266",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Housing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Housing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6290,
"slug": "housing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/housing"
},
"news_33520": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33520",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33520",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Podcast",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Podcast Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33537,
"slug": "podcast",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/podcast"
},
"news_3921": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3921",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3921",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "affordable housing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "affordable housing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3940,
"slug": "affordable-housing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/affordable-housing"
},
"news_4020": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4020",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4020",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Homelessness",
"slug": "homelessness",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Homelessness | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "index"
},
"ttid": 4039,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/homelessness"
},
"news_1775": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1775",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1775",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "housing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "housing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1790,
"slug": "housing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/housing"
},
"news_2011": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2011",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2011",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Rachael Myrow",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Rachael Myrow Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2026,
"slug": "rachael-myrow-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/rachael-myrow-2"
},
"news_18541": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18541",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18541",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Jose",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Jose Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 91,
"slug": "san-jose",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-jose"
},
"news_1631": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1631",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1631",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Technology",
"slug": "technology",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Technology | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 1643,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/technology"
},
"news_19906": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19906",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19906",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Environment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19923,
"slug": "environment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/environment"
},
"news_356": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_356",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "356",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Science",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Science Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 364,
"slug": "science",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/science"
},
"news_2403": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2403",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2403",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Mexico",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Mexico Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2418,
"slug": "mexico",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mexico"
},
"news_18305": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18305",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18305",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Renewable Energy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Renewable Energy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18339,
"slug": "renewable-energy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/renewable-energy"
},
"news_4486": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4486",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4486",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Diego",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Diego Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4505,
"slug": "san-diego",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-diego"
},
"news_7054": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_7054",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "7054",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "KPBS",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "KPBS Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7081,
"slug": "kpbs",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/kpbs"
},
"news_457": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_457",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "457",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16998,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/health"
},
"news_311": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_311",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "311",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Central Valley",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Central Valley Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 319,
"slug": "central-valley",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/central-valley"
},
"news_17601": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17601",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17601",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Drought",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Drought Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17635,
"slug": "drought",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/drought"
},
"news_37": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_37",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "37",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Fresno",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Fresno Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 37,
"slug": "fresno",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/fresno"
},
"news_1735": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1735",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1735",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Airbnb",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Airbnb Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1747,
"slug": "airbnb",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/airbnb"
},
"news_18538": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18538",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18538",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 31,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california"
},
"news_38": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_38",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "38",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 58,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco"
},
"news_18226": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18226",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18226",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Santa Monica",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Santa Monica Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18260,
"slug": "santa-monica",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/santa-monica"
},
"news_333": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_333",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "333",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Food",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Food Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 341,
"slug": "food",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/food"
},
"news_17411": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17411",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17411",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/boomtown-logo-series.jpg",
"name": "Boomtown",
"description": "Boom-bust. Starting with the Gold Rush in 1849, the Bay Area has experienced dramatic up-and-down cycles that generate tremendous new wealth for some and trouble for others. Exhibit A is the current tech boom.\r\n\r\nKQED’s “Boomtown” series seeks to identify not only what is happening in real time in this boom but drawing out the causes and possible solutions to the conflicts and pressures between the old and the new.",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Boom-bust. Starting with the Gold Rush in 1849, the Bay Area has experienced dramatic up-and-down cycles that generate tremendous new wealth for some and trouble for others. Exhibit A is the current tech boom. KQED’s “Boomtown” series seeks to identify not only what is happening in real time in this boom but drawing out the causes and possible solutions to the conflicts and pressures between the old and the new.",
"title": "Boomtown Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17444,
"slug": "boomtown",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/boomtown"
},
"news_18583": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18583",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18583",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/SoWellSpoken1.jpg",
"name": "So Well Spoken",
"description": "\u003ch3>We're going national!\u003c/h3>\r\nThis series of conversations about race and culture will continue early next year as a national broadcast. Public Radio International will distribute our next four episodes coast-to-coast. There’s plenty to do to get it ready, but we need to hear from \u003cem>you\u003c/em> about how we’re doing so far.\r\n\u003cul>\r\n\u003cli>Leave us a voicemail: 415-553-8455\u003c/li>\r\n\u003cli>Post to our \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDnews/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page\u003c/a> or on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqednews\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken\" target=\"_blank\">#KQEDSpoken\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\r\n\u003cli>Email us: \u003ca href=\"mailto:SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\" target=\"_blank\">SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\r\n\u003cul>",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "We're going national! This series of conversations about race and culture will continue early next year as a national broadcast. Public Radio International will distribute our next four episodes coast-to-coast. There’s plenty to do to get it ready, but we need to hear from you about how we’re doing so far. Leave us a voicemail: 415-553-8455 Post to our Facebook Page or on Twitter with #KQEDSpoken Email us: SoWellSpoken@KQED.org",
"title": "So Well Spoken Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18600,
"slug": "sowellspoken",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/sowellspoken"
},
"news_17687": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17687",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17687",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "diversity",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "diversity Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17721,
"slug": "diversity",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/diversity"
},
"news_4613": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4613",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4613",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "gentrification",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "gentrification Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4632,
"slug": "gentrification",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gentrification"
},
"news_551": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_551",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "551",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Mateo County",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Mateo County Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 560,
"slug": "san-mateo-county",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-mateo-county"
},
"news_5933": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5933",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5933",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Peninsula Press",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Peninsula Press Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7088,
"slug": "peninsula-press",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/peninsula-press"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"requestOutcomesReducer": {
"notFound": []
},
"navPromosReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": true,
"promos": {
"news": {
"name": "2026 Voter Guide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"imageURL": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Nav-News-Nov2026ElectionCoverage@2x-7bd4aad4.png",
"description": "Get informed in minutes with our Voter Guide for California’s November 3 election."
},
"podcasts-radio": {},
"video-tv": {},
"events": {},
"support": {}
}
}
}